Reconstructions : new perspectives on the postbellum United States / edited by Thomas J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Thomas J., 1960- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text surveys scholarship on Reconstruction and identifies directions for future research. It shows that the issues in interpretive debates have changed, but that Reconstruction inspires historical literature and encompasses a range of adjustments to the effects of the Civil War.

Contents:

"A general remodeling of every thing" : economy and race in the post-emancipation South / Stephen A. West

Black agency after slavery / John C. Rodrigue

North and west of reconstruction : studies in political economy / Heather Cox Richardson

Reconstruction politics and the politics of reconstruction / Michael W. Fitzgerald

The past as a foreign country : reconstruction, inside and out / Mark M. Smith

Reconstruction as a constitutional crisis / Michael Vorenberg

Reconstructions in intellectual and cultural life / Leslie Butler

Civil War remembrance as reconstruction / Thomas J. Brown.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771574-5

0-19-029191-5

0-19-972397-4

9786611826055

1-281-82605-7

1-281-15656-6

9786611156565

0-19-803914-X

1-4294-6886-6

OCLC:

476259705