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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism
Robert Harrison
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Description for Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism
hardcover. Provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War, and into the lives of the newly emancipated African Americans. Num Pages: 354 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen's Bureau attempted to assist Washington's freed population and shows how officials struggled to address the social problems resulting ... Read more
In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen's Bureau attempted to assist Washington's freed population and shows how officials struggled to address the social problems resulting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107002326
SKU
V9781107002326
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About Robert Harrison
Dr Robert Harrison (1944–2007) was a member of the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, for more than thirty years. His numerous publications on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American politics, particularly on Congress and the District of Columbia, made a very significant contribution to the field. They include State and Society in Twentieth-Century America ... Read more
Reviews for Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism
'… offers an informative analysis of city governance in the district of Colombia amid the tumult of secession, war, emancipation, and postbellum politics.' Robert S. Wolff, Journal of Southern History