Splendid failure : postwar Reconstruction in the American South
Title:
Splendid failure : postwar Reconstruction in the American South
Author:
Publication Information:
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2007.
Physical Description:
x, 234 p. ; 22 cm.
Series:
The American ways series
American ways series.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-218) and index.
Contents:
To Civil War : what slavery did -- National politics : Andrew Johnson and the lost compromise -- Emancipation and terror in the plantation South -- Establishing the Reconstruction governments -- Railroads, development, and reconstructing society -- Race, faction, and grant -- Gender, race, and civil society in the Reconstruction South -- The politics of slaughter : depression and reaction -- Endgame in South Carolina : 1877 and after.
