Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains

ISBN-13: 9781469645544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Steven E. Nash

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In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule.