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Author: Michael W. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Imprint: Louisiana State University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.404kg
ISBN: 9780807126332
ISBN 10: 0807126330
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 October 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A tightly-focused, well-executed monograph that argues for a reconsideration of the significance of the League and its impact on the course of black freedom in Alabama and Mississippi. --Journal of Southern History One of the great untold stories of Reconstruction. . . . It is a wonder that this book has not been written before, but it is a relief that it has finally been written so well. --Virginia Quarterly Review [This] book's focus on the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Union League in reconstructing postwar social and economic life will make [it] essential reading for students of Reconstruction and southern history. --Georgia Historical Quarterly
"""[This] book's focus on the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Union League in reconstructing postwar social and economic life will make [it] essential reading for students of Reconstruction and southern history.""-- ""Georgia Historical Quarterly"" ""A tightly-focused, well-executed monograph that argues for a reconsideration of the significance of the League and its impact on the course of black freedom in Alabama and Mississippi.""-- ""Journal of Southern History"" ""One of the great untold stories of Reconstruction. . . . It is a wonder that this book has not been written before, but it is a relief that it has finally been written so well.""-- ""Virginia Quarterly Review"""
[This] book's focus on the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Union League in reconstructing postwar social and economic life will make [it] essential reading for students of Reconstruction and southern history. --Georgia Historical Quarterly A tightly-focused, well-executed monograph that argues for a reconsideration of the significance of the League and its impact on the course of black freedom in Alabama and Mississippi. --Journal of Southern History One of the great untold stories of Reconstruction. . . . It is a wonder that this book has not been written before, but it is a relief that it has finally been written so well. --Virginia Quarterly Review
One of the great untold stories of Reconstruction.... It is a wonder that this book has not been written before, but it is a relief that it has finally been written so well .<p>-- Virginia Quarterly Review
Author Information
Michael W. Fitzgerald, professor of history at St. Olaf College, is the author of Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860- 1890.
