The Debate on the American Civil War EraA historiographical examination of treatments of the Civil War from those that were engaged in it to those of the 1990s. The author argues for the centrality of racial assumptions both in the actual conflict and in conflicting interpretations. He traces how the historians' attitudes and assumptions were partly dictated by time and place and points to an overarching theme of the suppression of the centrality of race in the period following the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and before the emergence of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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| Title | The Debate on the American Civil War Era Issues in historiography The Debate on the American Civil War Era, Hugh Tulloch |
| Author | Hugh Tulloch |
| Contributor | Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)|5 MsSM |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 18, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0719049377, 9780719049378 |
| Length | 255 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General History / Historiography History / United States / 19th Century |
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