- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era
- Uniform Title
- World the Civil War Made (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0001546457
- Title
The World the Civil War Made [electronic resource] / edited by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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- Added Author
Masur, Kate.
Downs, Gregory P.
Project Muse.
- LCCN
2014044783