The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War

by Randall M. Miller

Book Overview

Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end. In doing so, it shows that "the war" did not actually end with Lee's surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232034
• ISBN13: 9780823232031
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"