TY - BOOK AU - Jerzy Sobieraj PY - 2014 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653038361 TI - Collisions of Conflict T2 - Studies in American History and Culture, 1820-1920 DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-03836-1 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048171 N2 - This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular interest today when the USA are for the first time governed by an African American president. The postscriptum extends the main narrative by focusing on selected writers’ activities and fiction during the Civil War and Reconstruction. KW - Sklaverei, The Civil War, Bürgerkrieg, Segregation, Rassismus, Lynching, Du Bois, W. E. B., Washington. Booker T. LA - English ER -