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Iron confederacies : southern railways, Klan violence, and Reconstruction

Title
Iron confederacies : southern railways, Klan violence, and Reconstruction / Scott Nelson.
Author
Nelson, Scott Reynolds.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description
x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Subject
  • Railroads > History > Southern States > 19th century
  • Reconstruction
  • States' rights (American politics)
  • Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945
  • Southern States > Economic conditions
  • Southern States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index.
Contents
1. Forcing Nature: An Iron Confederacy Surveyed and Graded -- 2. The Confederacy Serves the South(ern) -- 3. Connections: Political Reconstruction and the Public Fiction of the Air Line, 1865-1871 -- 4. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Consolidation and the Return of the Confederacy -- 5. Alamance: A Trenchant Blade -- 6. Pockets Full of Executions: The Railway Corridor in South Carolina -- 7. Public Fictions -- 8. A Railway Redemption -- Conclusion: An Ironic Confederacy.
ISBN
  • 0807824763 (alk. paper)
  • 0807848034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
98041228
OCLC
ocm39724229
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries