The Age of Reconstruction (eBook)

How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World

Don H. Doyle (Autor)

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2024
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25611-5 (ISBN)

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A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the AmericasThe Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post-Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln's assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of slavery in Latin America, and ignited a host of democratic reforms in Europe.In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the United States, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento. Some European liberals, including Victor Hugo and Giuseppe Mazzini, even called for a "e;United States of Europe."e; Yet for all its achievements and optimism, this "e;new birth of freedom"e; was short-lived. By the 1890s, Reconstruction had been undone in the United States and abroad and America had become an exclusionary democracy based on white supremacy-and a very different kind of model to the world.At home and abroad, America's Reconstruction was, as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, "e;the greatest and most important step toward world democracy of all men of all races ever taken in the modern world."e; The Age of Reconstruction is a bracing history of a remarkable period when democracy, having survived the great test of the Civil War, was ascendant around the Atlantic world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 52 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• 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
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Schlagworte: Abolition • Abraham Lincoln • Adullamite • African Americans • alabama claims • Alaska • Alaska Purchase • albans • American Civil War • american republic • American union • Anglo-Saxon • Atlantic • Avanza • books: Lincoln • Bourbon • Britain • Camaguey • Canadian • canda • Caribbean • Catholic • Catholic Church • Céspedes • Chile • chileans • Church • Civil War • civil war era • Commons • Commune • communist • Congress • Corps • Corps législatif • Cortes • crimean • Cuba • cuban • Democracy • Democrats • Domingo • dominican • dominion • Don H. Doyle • Emperor Napoleon • Empire • Eugénie • Fenian Brotherhood • Fenians • foreign opinion • Foreign Relations • Founding Father • France • Glorious Revolution • grand design • Guáimaro • HathiTrust • Italy • Latin • Latin American • Latin Race • Liberal Empire • Liberal Party • Malakoff • Maritime • matamoros • Maximilian • Mexican • Mexico • Monroe Doctrine • Montmartre • Navy • New World • pan-american • papal • papal Rome • Paris Commune • Parisian • parliament • Peru • Petersburg • Pius • president lincoln • Princeton University Press • Protestant • prussia • Prussian • Puerto Ricans • Puerto Rico • Radical Reconstruction • radical republicans • reconstruction • Reform Act • Reform Commission • Reform League • repubicanism • Rio • Rio Grande • Risorgimento • Russia • Russian • Schofield • Second Empire • Senate • Slavery • South America • Spain • Spanish • stoeckl • Tory • Tsar Alexander • union army • United States history • Vatican • Viva Lincoln: The Legacy of the Civil War and the New Birth of Freedom Abroad • Wikimedia Commons • william seward • Zouave
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25611-X / 069125611X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25611-5 / 9780691256115