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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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Discovery Miles 6 240
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
Written by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United
States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S.
Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to
understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in
the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies
that have pursued the Civil War's connections with Europe and the
Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly
Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the
West. As the United States went through its Civil War and
Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a
four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile,
Britain's North American colonies were in complex and contested
negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West,
indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers
seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite
this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly
ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring
elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the
history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over
sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the
fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore
these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans
fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate
privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental
perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate
of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for
grabs.
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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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R2,129
Discovery Miles 21 290
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century
United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of
the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that
seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century
crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other
studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe
and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America,
particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous
states in the West. As the United States went through its Civil War
and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged
a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile,
Britain’s North American colonies were in complex and contested
negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West,
indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers
seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite
this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly
ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring
elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the
history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over
sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the
fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore
these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans
fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate
privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental
perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate
of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for
grabs.
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