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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457037403321

Titolo

The great task remaining before us [[electronic resource] ] : Reconstruction as America's continuing Civil War / / edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8232-4049-5

0-8232-3204-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Reconstructing America

Altri autori (Persone)

CimbalaPaul A <1951-> (Paul Alan)

MillerRandall M

Disciplina

973.8

Soggetti

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Social aspects

Memory - Social aspects - United States - History

Memory - Social aspects - Southern States - History

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions 1865-1918

Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: An Unfinished War""; ""A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction""; ""��I Wanted a Gun��: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri""; ""��The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky��: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865�1868""; ""The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama�s Postwar Home Front""; ""��A New Field of Labor��: Antislavery Women, Freedmen�s Aid, and Political Power""

""��Objects of Humanity��: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia""""Racial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans�s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation""; ""��My Children on the Field��: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause""; ""Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos



and Its Impact""; ""Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South""; ""Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Using case studies, this book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end.