Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
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Part of the series The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era;Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
- 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 government (which they term a Stockade State) and over the boundaries of coercion in the aftermath of slavery — Provided by publisher.
- Introduction : echoes of war : rethinking post-Civil War governance and politics / Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur — Reconstruction and the history of governance / Laura F. Edwards — Emancipating peons, excluding coolies : reconstructing coercion in the American West / Stacey L. Smith — Not quite constitutionalized : the meanings of civilization and the limits of Native American citizenship / Stephen Kantrowitz — The burnt district : making sense of ruins in the postwar South / K. Stephen Prince — The long life of proslavery religion / Luke E. Harlow — The wounds that cried out : reckoning with African Americans’ testimonies of trauma and suffering from night riding / Kidada E. 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 — Slave emancipation and the revolutionizing of human rights / 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.
Subjects:
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Influence.
- Ethnic groups — Civil rights.
- Minorities — Civil rights.
- Human rights.
- National characteristics, American.
- Social values — United States — History.
- American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
- United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
- 1861 – 1865 fast
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
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