The Ordeal of the Reunion : A New History of Reconstruction /

For the past several decades, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has placed the struggles of the recently enslaved for a meaningful freedom at the centre of discussions about the period's policies, successes, and failures. But this book synthesises and reorients the existing scholarship to f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and government.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1950.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1900.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The great unfinished task remaining before us
  • When this cruel peace is over
  • Restoration, 1865-1866
  • Reconstruction at last, 1865-1867
  • Bottom rail on top, 1867
  • The critical year : 1868
  • Two failed peace policies
  • Conquered provinces
  • Passage to India : unmanifested destiny
  • On every putrid spot
  • Georgia on their mind, 1870-1871
  • Corruption is the fashion
  • Clasping hands over the bloody chasm
  • Dead Sea fruits, 1872-1874
  • Redeemer nation
  • Last full measure of defection.

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