The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction. For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a /5(2). Abstract. For the past several decades, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has placed the struggles of the recently enslaved for a meaningful freedom at the center of discussions about the period's policies, successes, and failures. But this book synthesizes and reorients the existing scholarship to focus on the loyal citizenry that imposed Reconstruction and the defeated Confederates who had to come to Author: Mark Wahlgren Summers. The Ordeal of the Reunion is a phenomenal one volume work on the period while focusing on those points which are lacking in recent historiography. Mark Wahlgren Summers handles many of the issues of Reconstruction but also takes things one more step in every point he makes/5(5).
Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), The ordeal of the reunion: a new history of Reconstruction / by Mark Wahlgren Summers. pages cm. — (The Littlefield history of the Civil War era) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN (cloth: alkaline paper) — ISBN (e-book) 1. For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction's need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework. The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction. By Mark Wahlgren Summers, UNC Press, Chapel Hill North Carolina, , pp. ix + US$40 (cloth) Mark Wahlgren Summers explains in his introduction that his book is not the history of Reconstruction; it is, instead, a history of Reconstruction as an end to sectional conflict, an.
T1 - Review of The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers. AU - Masur, Katherine. PY - /1. Y1 - /1. N2 - The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. cloth, IBSN Abstract. For the past several decades, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has placed the struggles of the recently enslaved for a meaningful freedom at the center of discussions about the period's policies, successes, and failures. But this book synthesizes and reorients the existing scholarship to focus on the loyal citizenry that imposed Reconstruction and the defeated Confederates who had to come to terms with it. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important.
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