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Author:

Link, William A.

Title:

Atlanta, cradle of the New South : race and remembering in the Civil War's aftermath / William A. Link.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Atlanta (Ga.)--History.--History.
United States--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
African Americans--Atlanta--Atlanta--Social conditions.
Memory--Social aspects--Atlanta.--Atlanta.
Atlanta (Ga.)--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Civil War America

ISBN:

146960776X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781469607764 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)811591341

LCCN:

2012044361

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)