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After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Downs
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674743989
ISBN-13
9780674743984
eBay Product ID (ePID)
205708520
Product Key Features
Book Title
After Appomattox : Military Occupation and the Ends of War
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Slavery, Sociology / General, United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Military / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), American Government / General
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Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
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Trade
LCCN
2014-038048
Dewey Edition
23
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Downs has written an important book challenging assumptions about the post-Civil War era and the ways in which historians define 'wartime' and 'peacetime.' He contends that Lee's surrender at Appomattox did not bring peace, but rather a second phase of war--an insurgency and war of occupation that did not 'end' until 1871. Downs problematizes the idea of 'reconstruction.' Whatever accomplishments came in that era--civil rights, a national definition of citizenship--came as a result of military force rather than deliberative politics. Challenging scholars who argue that too few Union troops for a meaningful occupation remained in the postwar South, Downs demonstrates through impressive research that there was actually a significant military presence, both numerically and geographically. But even this presence had its limits, and outside the pale, terrorists and violence plagued the South. By framing the period as an occupation and insurgency, the author has done much to reveal the violent, contested, and contingent nature of the post-Civil War US. Required reading for scholars of the Civil War era., Moving brilliantly between the lived experience of the Civil War'e(tm)s forgotten final six years and the fierce legal debates in Washington, After Appomattox is the definitive work on a great paradox of American democracy: the post'e"Civil War expansion of rights arose out of and depended upon the awesome powers of the wartime state. Downs masterfully reveals how controversies over war powers shaped the course of American freedom. A fundamental rethinking of what we can now call America'e(tm)s Ten Years'e(tm) War., After Appomattox demonstrates how a long and ambitious military occupation aimed to secure freedom for the newly emancipated in the violent, lawless, and chaotic South. Original and revelatory, it has tremendous potential to change our understanding of American Reconstruction., Downs resets our sights on the military occupation that did occur, and he argues for its centrality in helping to fashion whatever gains African-Americans managed to achieve. In talking about military occupation, numbers matter, and his research has fixed them with a precision previously lacking... After Appomattox is a timely, important book that casts new light on the meaning of occupation during Reconstruction, and raises challenging questions about the relationship between military power and civil rights in today's climate of never-ending war.
Dewey Decimal
973.7/14
Synopsis
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. As Gregory Downs reveals in this gripping history of post-Civil War America, Grant's distinction proved prophetic, for peace would elude the South for years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. After Appomattox argues that the war did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. Instead, a second phase commenced which lasted until 1871--not the project euphemistically called Reconstruction but a state of genuine belligerency whose mission was to shape the terms of peace. Using its war powers, the U.S. Army oversaw an ambitious occupation, stationing tens of thousands of troops in hundreds of outposts across the defeated South. This groundbreaking study of the post-surrender occupation makes clear that its purpose was to crush slavery and to create meaningful civil and political rights for freed people in the face of rebels' bold resistance. But reliance on military occupation posed its own dilemmas. In areas beyond Army control, the Ku Klux Klan and other violent insurgencies created near-anarchy. Voters in the North also could not stomach an expensive and demoralizing occupation. Under those pressures, by 1871, the Civil War came to its legal end. The wartime after Appomattox disrupted planter power and established important rights, but the dawn of legal peacetime heralded the return of rebel power, not a sustainable peace., The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871--not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.
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E668.D74 2015
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