Abstract
Even my most
recent published work on the Georgia project has neglected a thorough
consideration of the work of living historians on Reconstruction, in Georgia
and more generally, and has tended to downplay the revisionist strain of my
work, both in my reading of Reconstruction historians and in my reading of
Marxist theories of revolutions and modes of production. Here I attempt to rectify that oversight by
responding directly to some of the comments of historians who have reviewed my
work.