The world the Civil War made

The world the Civil War made /

"This provocative collection boldly rewrites the way we understand the United States in the post-Civil War era. The editors argue for thinking beyond the traditional framework of Reconstruction and considering, instead, regionally interconnected struggles over the capacity of the federal govern...

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Other Authors: Masur, Kate (Editor), Downs, Gregory P. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.
Subjects:
1861-1865
Social values > United States > History.
National characteristics, American.
Human rights.
Minorities > Civil rights.
Ethnic groups > Civil rights.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Ethnic groups > Civil rights
Human rights
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Minorities > Civil rights
National characteristics, American
Social values
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
United States
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : echoes of war : rethinking post-Civil War governance and politics / Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur
  • Reconstruction and the history of governance / Laura Edwards
  • Emancipating peons, excluding coolies : reconstructing coercion in the American West / Stacey Smith
  • "Not quite constitutionalized" : the meanings of "civilization" and the limits of Native American citizenship / Stephen Kantrowitz
  • Making sense of ruins in the postwar South / K. Stephen Prince
  • The faith that did not die : the long life of proslavery religion / Luke E. Harlow
  • The wounds that cried out : reckoning with African Americans' testimonies of trauma and suffering / Kidada Williams
  • Ely S. Parker and the paradox of Reconstruction politics in Indian Country / C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
  • Washington novels and the machinery of government / Amanda Claybaugh
  • Indian territory and the treaties of 1866 : a long history of emancipation / Barbara Krauthamer
  • "What if I am a woman" : black women's campaigns for sexual justice and citizenship / Crystal N. Feimster
  • Revolutionizing human rights : slave emancipation and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 / Amy Dru Stanley
  • From the second American revolution to the First International and back again : Marxism, the Popular Front, and the American Civil War / Andrew Zimmerman
  • Afterword : what sort of world did the Civil War make? / Steven Hahn.

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