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UNINA9910822050403321 |
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Autore |
Bynum Victoria E |
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Titolo |
The long shadow of the Civil War : southern dissent and its legacies / / Victoria E. Bynum |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
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979-88-9313-219-9 |
1-4696-0987-8 |
1-4696-0414-0 |
0-8078-9821-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Unionists (United States Civil War) - Confederate States of America |
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Social aspects |
Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945 |
Confederate States of America Social conditions |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950 |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : kinship, community, and place in the old and the new South -- Guerrilla wars : plain folk resistance to the Confederacy -- Occupied at home women confront Confederate forces in North Carolina's Quaker belt -- Disordered communities : freedpeople, poor whites, and "mixed blood" families in Reconstruction North Carolina -- Fighting a losing battle : Newt Knight versus the U.S. Court of Claims, 1870-1900 -- War Unionists as new South radicals Mississippi and Texas, 1865-1920 -- Negotiating boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi : the women of the Knight family -- Epilogue : fathers and sons. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In The Long Shadow of the Civil War, Victoria Bynum relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern |
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states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of the South and of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Examining regions within the South where the inner civil wars of deadly physical conflict a |
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