Edge of the Sword
The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. New England native, Union soldier, Freedmen's Bureau agent, and Louisiana planter, Twitchell became the radical political boss of Red River Parish in the 1870s. He forged an economic alliance with entrepreneurial Jewish merchants and rose to power during the first upswing of the southern economy after the war. The Panic of 1873, however, undermined his regime and virtually overnight the New Englander quickly went from financial benefactor to scapegoat for northwest Louisiana's failed dreams of prosperity. His life-and-death s…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-6811-0
- EAN: 9780807168110
- Produktnummer: 31741119
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'717 KB
- Abbildungen: 17 halftones, 3 maps
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Ted Tunnell
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The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction
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