When the war was over : the failure of self-reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867

• Autore: Carter Dan T
• Pubblicazione: Baton Rouge, : LSU Press, 1985
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.041; 975/.041
• Soggetto topico: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Southern States -- History -- 1865-1877; United States - General; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter I: Social Disorder and Violence in the Land of the Vanquished; Chapter II: Self-Reconstruction Begins: The Failure of Strait-Sect Unionism; Chapter III: Southern Realism and Southern Honor: The Limits of Self-Reconstruction; Chapter IV: Uncertain Prophets in the Land of the Vanquished; Chapter V: The Proslavery Argument in a World Without Slavery; Chapter VI: Self-Reconstruction: The Final Act; Chapter VII: Political Alternatives in the Land of Fog and Confusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S ; TU; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the returning foot soldiers of the defeated army, hungry and without hope, raided the already impoverished countryside for food and clothing. In the wake of the devastation that followed surrender, even some of the most virulent Yankee-haters found themselves relieved as the Union army began to bring a
• Titolo autorizzato: When the war was over
• ISBN: 0-8071-5116-5; 0-8071-5115-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247879603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno