Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Reconstruction Reconsidered in a New Light xi
Chapter 1 Asymmetry and Asymmetric Warfare 1
Chapter 2 From False Equilibrium to Disequilibrium: The Strategies of Reconstruction (1865-1867) 13
Chapter 3 Asymmetric Warfare Phase I: Sources and Preconditions (1866-1867) 23
Chapter 4 Asymmetric Warfare Phase II: The Mobilization of Collective Identity (1867-1868) 39
Chapter 5 Asymmetric Warfare Phase II: The States Under Siege (1868-1870) 55
Chapter 6 Asymmetric Warfare Phase II: The Dominant Actor Responds (1870-1873) 81
Chapter 7 Asymmetric Warfare Phase III: The Dominant Actor Dislocated (1873-1876) 93
Chapter 8 Asymmetric Warfare Phases III and IV: Bulldozers, Red Shirts, and Equilibrium (1876-1877) 119
Chapter 9 Asymmetric Warfare, Reconciliation, and the Road to the New South 141
Conclusion 149
Notes 157
Bibliography 183
Index 201