The Long Shadow of the Civil War
Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
By Victoria E. Bynum
240 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 9 illus., 1 map, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-0987-4
Published: August 2013 -
Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-7909-2
Published: July 2010 -
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Published: April 2010 -
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Published: April 2010
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About the Author
Victoria E. Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War and Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South.
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"The bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth has come and gone, and with it a flood of books about the sixteenth president. But the sesquicentennial of the Civil War now looms on the horizon, promising its own deluge of books of every size, shape and description. We will be fortunate indeed if in sheer originality and insight they measure up to . . . The Long Shadow of the Civil War, [a] new work by . . . Victoria Bynum . . . on the Confederate experience."--Eric Foner, The Nation
"Bynum highlights the 'solid South' as a construction and even more successfully presents the importance of 'kinship, community, and place' in sustaining resistance to oppression."--Publishers Weekly
"Bynum has plunged deeply into the primary sources on these interesting individuals, family groups, and local communities. . . . Valuable . . . because it proves that dissent was not rare and insignificant."--H-Civil War
"Those who enjoy the study of Reconstruction social and political battles as much or more than the military conflicts of the Civil War will find a wealth of material here for further study. . . . [Bynum's] engaging writing style will no doubt interest many readers of her book as well."--TOCWOC
"Bynum maps a road that few took, but the evocative stories of these families demand notice."--Virginia Quarterly Review
"Supported by impressive research and crafted to enlighten rather than celebrate or condemn, this book offers a penetrating portrait of the dissenters and their world. A strong addition to upper-level Civil War collections, it will also serve as a lively read for the general public. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice