Ordeal of the Reunion (eBook)

A New History of Reconstruction

Mark Wahlgren Summers (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
528 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1758-9 (ISBN)

Infos

For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction's need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of federalism and republican democracy. Assessing the era nationally, Summers emphasizes the variety of conservative strains that confined the scope of change, highlights the war's impact and its aftermath, and brings the West and foreign policy into an integrated narrative. In sum, this book offers a fresh explanation for Reconstruction's demise and a case for its essential successes as well as its great failures. Indeed, this book demonstrates the extent to which the victors' aims in 1865 were met--and at what cost.Summers depicts not just a heroic, tragic moment with equal rights advanced and then betrayed but a time of achievement and consolidation, in which nationhood and emancipation were placed beyond repeal and the groundwork was laid for a stronger, if not better, America to come.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
• Reihe/Serie: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
• Zusatzinfo: 21 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: African Americans after emancipation • African Americans in politics Reconstruction • Alexander R. Shepherd and Washington D. C. construction • Amnesty legislation post-Civil War • Andrew Johnson • Benjamin F. Butler • Black and Tan conventions • Black Codes in the postwar South • Bloody shirt • Brooks-Baxter War (1874) • carpetbaggers • charles sumner • Civil Rights Act (1875) • Civil rights after the Civil War • civil service reform • Confederates after the Civil War • Corruption during Reconstruction • Credit Mobilier • Education and public schools 1865-1880 • Force bill (1875) • Gold corner 1869 • Government activism after the Civil War • Henry Clay Warmoth • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson • Ku-Klux Klan • Liberal Republicanism • Negro rule • nineteenth-century American Radicalism • nineteenth-century liberalism • Northern Pacific Railroad • Panic of 1873 • Presidential Reconstruction • Race riots after the Civil War • reconstruction • Redemption of the South 1869-1877 • Reunion after the Civil War • Santo Domingo annexation • Scalawags • spoils system • “stolen election” of 1876 • Terrorism in post-Civil War America • Thaddeus Stevens • Thomas Nast • Ulysses S. Grant • Western expansion affected by the Civil War • White supremacy in postwar America 1865-1880
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-1758-7 / 1469617587
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1758-9 / 9781469617589