| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction. By James K. Hogue. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xvi, 227 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-3147-4.)

In Uncivil War, James K. Hogue probes the political and military strife in post–Civil War Louisiana, specifically in its capital city, New Orleans. In his astute, well-written analysis of five street battles between 1866 and 1877, Hogue makes a persuasive case that the conflict in the Crescent City represented a continuation of the Civil War by other means. In doing so, he convincingly challenges the traditional definitions of "civil war" and "battle" and uses both terms in describing this atypical era when domestic politics were neither peaceful nor consensual.

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