Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870
Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870

Author: Stephen V. Ash

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781572335394

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Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War--an approach exemplified and extended in Ash's later work and that of other leading Civil War scholars. For the new edition, Ash has written a preface that takes into account the advance of Civil War historiography since the book's original appearance. This preface cites subsequent studies focusing not only on race and class but also on women and gender relations, the significance of partisan politics in shaping the course of secession in Tennessee and other upper-South states, the economic forces at work, the influence of republican ideology, and the investigation of the degree to which slaves were active agents in their own emancipation.

Tennesseans and Their History
Tennesseans and Their History

Author: Paul H. Bergeron

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781572330566

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"The authors introduce readers to famous personalities such as Andrew Jackson and Austin Peay, but they also tell stories of ordinary people and their lives to show how they are an integral part of the state's history. Sidebars throughout the book highlight events and people of particular interest, and reading lists at the end of chapters provide readers with avenues for further exploration."--BOOK JACKET.

The Radical and the Republican
The Radical and the Republican

Author: James Oakes

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780393061949

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Opponents at first, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. James Oakes brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race and equality in Civil War America.

The Work of Reconstruction
The Work of Reconstruction

Author: Julie Saville

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780521566254

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This book examines social, political, and cultural conflicts opened by the abolition of slavery and the fashioning of wage relations in the era of the American Civil War. It offers a new, close look at the origins, goals, and tactics of popular political clubs created by emancipated workers in the countryside of one of the Deep South's oldest plantation states. The Work of Reconstruction draws on a rich documentary record that allowed ex-slaves to express in their own words and behavior the aspirations and goals that underlay their efforts. Not satisfied to render freed men and women as objects of theoretical inquiry, this book vividly recovers the concrete practices and language in which ex-slaves achieved freedom and the expectations that they had of liberty.