A propos de l'auteur
Stephen V. Ash is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Firebrand of Liberty, A Year in the South, and other books on the Civil War era. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Œuvres de Stephen V. Ash
A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months… (2002) 138 exemplaires
A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War (2013) 81 exemplaires
Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War (2008) 61 exemplaires
Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book (1999) — Directeur de publication — 22 exemplaires
Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870: War and Peace in the Upper South (1988) 21 exemplaires
The Black Experience in the Civil War South (Reflections on the Civil War Era) (2010) 21 exemplaires
The journal of East Tennessee history 3 exemplaires
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A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the… par Stephen V. Ash
This is a very interesting and rather unique "history" book. In many ways, it reads more like a non-fiction crime case than a civil war reconstruction or black civil rights book. At times, I half expected Sherlock Holmes to go into a litany of how the butler couldn't have done the crime. Moreover, while the book is marketed primarily as a civil war or civil rights history, it is also very much a case study of mob rule. In short, it is much more complex and thorough than I was expecting. The author admits to having an unusual amount of documentation available for his work, but that does not eliminate the fact that he applied great care to giving a balanced and candid assessment of both what happened and the validity (or lack of it) of the historical resources available to him. Well worth the investment in time for even non-history buffs.… (plus d'informations)
This is the American race riot almost no one has heard about. In the post-wr period in the South, things were very unsettled, and the city of Memphis was rife with antagonisms. 43 died and many black homes and churches were destroyed. Ash looks at the various peoples in Memphis, blacks, rebels, newly arrived Yankees, and Irish immigrants, none worling together in the post-Civil War period. A good look at a singicant tragic episode in American history.
This little masterpiece takes the unpromising subject of military government and spins it into pure gold. There is a certain amount of 'big picture' narrative, but the heart of the book is the author's fine way with the quotidian detail which makes his anecdotes so compelling. Many fascinating characters emerge; civilians (and soldiers) struggling to get home, a clerk trading passes through the lines for sex. A fine read and an even better source for a understudied aspect of the war.
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- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 466
- Popularité
- #52,775
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 27