Atlanta, cradle of the New South : race and remembering in the Civil War's aftermath / William A. Link.
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TextSeries: Civil War America (Series)Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 1469607778
- 9781469607771
- 9781469608327
- 1469608324
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions
- Memory -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social conditions
- Noirs américains -- Géorgie (État) -- Atlanta -- Conditions sociales
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Memory -- Social aspects
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Georgia -- Atlanta
- United States
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- 1861-1865
- 305.8009758/231 23
- F294.A89 N4454 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself. The war's aftermath brought contentious transition from Old South to New for whites and African Americans alike. Historian William Link argues that this struggle defined the broader meaning of the Civil War in the modern South, with no place embodying the region's past a.
A troublesome thing: invasion -- Ocean of ruins: destruction and rebirth -- A forgetfulness of the past: rebuilding the racial order -- Every contrivance of cruelty: violence and white supremacy in the new South -- We are rising: schooling the city -- Wheel within a wheel: competing visions -- The new South in crisis -- Epilogue: the propaganda of history.
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