Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear (Norton Library) - Softcover

Evans, W. McKee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393007111 ISBN 13: 9780393007114

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974

Synopsis

First published in 1967, when local history was still viewed as less important than national history, Evans's work is now considered pioneering. He recounts the struggle to reshape the post-Civil War society of the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina, the Confederacy's last outlet to the sea.

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Review

"This work is a significant addition to the history of Reconstruction not only in the Lower Cape Fear but in North Carolina as a whole. Furthermore, it is the type of study which needs to be read by the synthesizers of the Reconstruction story at the national level. . . . A substantial, well-documented work which achieves through both style and scholarship the author's purpose of revealing a people and an area at a turning point in their history."--"Journal of Southern History"

"Brilliantly written . . . The study is a model in researching, writing, and interpreting local history."--"Journal of American History"

""Ballots and Fence Rails" deserves the much-abused designation 'classic.' It is an exemplary study that combines an acute analysis of the dynamics of Reconstruction with a richly textured portrait of a locale, its people, and its history--all accomplished with a fluidity and grace of presentation that only a few professional historians achieve."--Barbara J. Fields

This work is a significant addition to the history of Reconstruction not only in the Lower Cape Fear but in North Carolina as a whole. Furthermore, it is the type of study which needs to be read by the synthesizers of the Reconstruction story at the national level. . . . A substantial, well-documented work which achieves through both style and scholarship the author's purpose of revealing a people and an area at a turning point in their history.--"Journal of Southern History"

Brilliantly written . . . The study is a model in researching, writing, and interpreting local history.--"Journal of American History"

"Ballots and Fence Rails" deserves the much-abused designation 'classic.' It is an exemplary study that combines an acute analysis of the dynamics of Reconstruction with a richly textured portrait of a locale, its people, and its history--all accomplished with a fluidity and grace of presentation that only a few professional historians achieve.--Barbara J. Fields

About the Author

William McKee Evans is a professor of history emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also the author of "To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction."

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393007111
• ISBN 13: 9780393007114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336