Name: The Promise of the New South
ISBN: 9780195326888

Edward L. Ayers

A new history of the American South during Reconstruction shows how a complex blending of new ideas and old hatreds developed in the region following the Civil War. By the author of Vengeance and Justice.

Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition

The Promise of the New South

Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts--a time of progess and repression, of new industries and old ways. Finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Winner of the Prize for Best Book on American Race Relations. Photos and line drawings.

The Promise of the New South Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition

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