Race and ReunionHarvard University Press, 30 de juny 2009 - 528 pàgines No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion. |
Continguts
Prologue | 1 |
1 The Dead and the Living | 6 |
2 Regeneration and Reconstruction | 31 |
3 Decoration Days | 64 |
4 Reconstruction and Reconciliation | 98 |
5 Soldiers Memory | 140 |
6 Soldiers Faith | 171 |
7 The Literature of Reunion and Its Discontents | 211 |
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Referències a aquest llibre
John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Previsualització limitada - 2004 |
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America Jane E. Schultz Previsualització limitada - 2005 |