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What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)
Bruce E. Baker
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Description for What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)
Paperback. Looks at an important aspect of southern memory: Reconstruction. The author examines what both white and black South Carolinians thought about the history of Reconstruction and how it shaped the way they lived their lives in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging book Bruce E. Baker looks at a related, and equally important, aspect of southern memory that has been treated by historians only in passing: Reconstruction. He examines what both white and black South Carolinians thought about the history of Reconstruction and how it shaped the way they lived their lives in the first half of the twentieth century. Baker addresses the dominant white construct of 'the dark days of Reconstruction', which was ... Read more
A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging book Bruce E. Baker looks at a related, and equally important, aspect of southern memory that has been treated by historians only in passing: Reconstruction. He examines what both white and black South Carolinians thought about the history of Reconstruction and how it shaped the way they lived their lives in the first half of the twentieth century. Baker addresses the dominant white construct of 'the dark days of Reconstruction', which was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
American South Series
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928777
SKU
V9780813928777
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99-15
About Bruce E. Baker
Bruce E. Baker is Lecturer in U.S. History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including most recently American Nineteenth Century History and Radicalism in the South since Reconstruction.
Reviews for What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)
"Bruce E. Baker's latest offering, What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South, inspects the construction of a southern culture through the new lens of Reconstruction memory. This approach is innovative, and it adds exciting new context to the already established study of wartime memory.... When all is said and done, What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American ... Read more