| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Scott Reynolds Nelson. Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1999. Pp. x, 257. Cloth $39.95, paper $18.95.

In this frustratingly brief yet boldly ambitious study, Scott Reynolds Nelson attempts to provide a new perspective from which to view and define the post-Civil War American South. His focus is the southern railroad network, particularly the corridor that ran from the capital of the Confederate South, Richmond, to the capital of the New South, Atlanta. Nelson contends that the "Iron Confederacy," as he calls the railroad network, not only proved the most enduring legacy of the political Confederacy but also shaped the history of Reconstruction and Redemption in significant ways still little understood. If the end result sometimes falls short of the author's intentions, the book nonetheless offers a refreshing and challenging interpretation that richly deserves consideration. . . .

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