Author: Brinsley Matthews
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337370
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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In 1882, William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel excoriating the enormous societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson’s work was especially notable in that the author was a onetime Radical Republican and supporter of Ulysses S. Grant’s bid for the presidency. A product of Pearson’s perception that northern Reconstruction policies had devastated his native North Carolina, the book set in motion a genre of politically motivated novels that would culminate near the turn of the twentieth century with Thomas Nelson Page’s Red Rock and later Thomas Dixon Jr.’s infamous The Clansman. Though set in Virginia and Alabama, it is clear that Well-Nigh Reconstructed drew heavily on Pearson’s own experiences and that it was conceived as a direct response to A Fool’s Errand, a pro-Reconstruction novel by fellow North Carolinian Albion Tourgée. Echoing Pearson’s own disillusionment with the Radical Republicans, the novel’s protagonist, Archie Moran, comes to see Radical Reconstruction as an attempt to turn the South into a carbon copy of the North, and through a series of encounters involving corrupt carpetbaggers, greedy politicians, and the Klan trials of the late 1870s, Moran grows weary of politics altogether and resigns his Republican Party affiliation. For Pearson and his doppelganger, Moran, Reconstruction became a vast breeding ground for corruption. Featuring an extensive introduction by historian Paul D. Yandle, who sets the political and regional scene of Reconstruction North Carolina, this reissue of Well-Nigh Reconstructed will shed new light on the ways in which sectionalism, regionalism, and the embrace of white supremacy tended to undermine the recently reconstituted Union among Appalachian residents.
Author: Brinsley Matthews
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385401461
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: George Ripley
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Author: Annie Marion MacLean
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Great Britain. Ministry of Reconstruction
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Category : Labor and laboring classes
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Author: Edwin Wildman
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Reconstruction and Production
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Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Author: Hakam H. Al-Shawi
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401206910
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ISSUE -- INSIGHT AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- RECONSTRUCTION AND ABSORPTION -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES -- METAPHYSICAL ISSUES -- ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.
Author: Derrick R. Spires
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048826X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
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Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. Highlights of Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction • Complete texts of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno • In-depth, Contexts sections on such topics as “Nature and the Environment,” “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny,” “Gender and Sexuality,” and “Oratory” • Broader and more extensive coverage of African American oral literature than in competing anthologies • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as George Moses Horton, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José Maria Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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