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

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Author / Creator:	Link, William A.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Civil War America Civil War America.
Subject:	African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions. Memory -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Atlanta. African Americans -- Social conditions. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Memory -- Social aspects. Race relations. Social conditions Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence. Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social conditions. Georgia -- Atlanta. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182457

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ISBN:	1469607778 9781469607771 9781469608327 1469608324 9781469607764 146960776X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself. The war's aftermath brought contentious transition from Old South to New for whites and African Americans alike. Historian William Link argues that this struggle defined the broader meaning of the Civil War in the modern South, with no place embodying the region's past a.
Other form:	Print version: 9781469607764 146960776X

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