Publication

2013 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

71,250 words, Guess

Page Count

285 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC973.8
  • LCCE668 .E49 2013

Description

"Beyond Redemption explores how the violence of a protracted civil war shaped the meaning of freedom and citizenship in the new South. Here, Carole Emberton traces the competing meanings that redemption held for Americans as they tried to come to terms with the war and the changing social landscape. While some imagined redemption from the brutality of slavery and war, others--like the infamous Ku Klux Klan--sought political and racial redemption for their losses through violence. Beyond Redemption merges studies of race and American manhood with an analysis of post-Civil War American politics to offer unconventional and challenging insight into the violence of Reconstruction." -- Publisher's description.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • American beginnings, 1500-1900

Other Editions

  • Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil WarThe University of Chicago Press2013-01-01

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