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Author : Evan C. Rothera
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0807178438

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In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national conflicts rocked the Americas: the Wars of Unification in Argentina, the War of the Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, and the Civil War in the United States. The recovery efforts that followed reshaped the Western Hemisphere. In Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas, Evan C. Rothera uses both transnational and comparative methodologies to highlight similarities and differences among the wars and reconstructions in the US, Mexico, and Argentina. In doing so, he uncovers a new history that stresses the degree to which cooperation and collaboration, rather than antagonism and discord, characterized the relationships among the three countries. This study serves as a unique assessment of a crucial period in the history of the Americas and speaks to the perpetual battle between visions of international partnership and isolation.

Author : William A. Link
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0813057183

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Historians have examined the American Civil War and its aftermath for more than a century, yet little work has situated this important era in a global context. Contributors to this volume broaden the scope of Reconstruction by viewing it not as an insular process but as an international phenomenon. Here, three leading international scholars explore how emancipation, nationhood and nationalism, and the spread of market capitalism—issues central to the period in the United States—were interwoven with global patterns of political, social, and economic change. Rafael Marquese explores the integrated trajectories of slavery in the United States and Brazil, tracing the connections, interactions, and transformations of the coffee and cotton economies in both countries. Don Doyle discusses how Secretary of State William Seward eliminated a possible Confederate revival and hostile European presence supported by Mexico’s Maximilian regime. Edward Rugemer reconsiders how Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion influenced Reconstruction by demonstrating that emancipation without citizenship, political rights, or economic opportunities can have violent consequences. This volume suggests new discussions about how the Civil War reshaped the United States’s relationship to the world and how large-scale international developments influenced the country’s transition from slavery to freedom. A volume in the series Frontiers of the American South, edited by William A. Link Contributors: William A. Link | Don H. Doyle | Rafael Marquese | Edward Rugemer

Author : Evan Rothera
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2017
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This dissertation makes three arguments. First, it insists the time period of this study, 1860-1880, was not simply an era of discrete civil wars. Rather, this was a period in which many individual conflicts the Wars of Unification in Argentina, the U.S. Civil War, and the French Intervention in Mexico formed a larger war pitting democracy and republicanism against monarchy and aristocracy. Many people understood the entangled nature of their world. Soldiers circulated from one country to another and fought in wars seemingly not their own. Policymakers ignored violations of neutrality laws. Mexicans began celebrating the Fourth of July. This was a time of rapprochement, particularly between the U.S. and Mexico, where much of the hatred and bitterness engendered by the U.S. War with Mexico evaporated.Second, this dissertation argues that the period covered by this study was a Pan-American moment marked more by cooperation among the people of the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina than conflict. The historiography overemphasizes anti-Latin American sentiment. However, people in all three countries corresponded with each other, traveled to different nations, and worked to create stronger economic, political, and cultural ties.Third, it contends that all three countries faced similar problems of order and disorder, not a problem of Mexicanization. In other words, while Mexico was often disordered and chaotic during this period, so too were the United States and Argentina. Victors had to pacify people who did not subscribe to their worldview. How victors sought to impose order and how the vanquished and some discontented victors resisted, reveals a common, if not identical, hemispheric history. By 1880, however, each country had embarked on a similar path to stability.

Author : Paul Alan Cimbala
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0823232026

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"An unusually strong collection of essays ...the scholarship is impeccable."---Gaines M. Foster, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge --

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0226260798

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Ever since its original publication in 1961, Reconstruction after the Civil War has been praised for cutting through the controversial scholarship and popular myths of the time to provide an accurate account of the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Now Franklin has updated his work to acknowledge the enormous body of research and scholarship that followed in the wake of the first edition. New are Franklin’s references to important, later texts that enrich the original narrative. In addition, the extensive bibliography has been thoroughly revised. What has not changed, however, is the foundation Franklin has laid. Still compelling are his arguments concerning the brevity of the North’s military occupation of the South, the limited amount of power wielded by former slaves, the influence of moderate southerners, the flaws of the constitutions drawn up by the Radical state governments, and the reasons for the downfall of Reconstruction.

Author : Michael Perman
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN : 9780495908951

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Designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, this best-selling title covers the Civil War's entire chronological span with a series of documents and essays.

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0226923398

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The classic work of American history by the renowned author of From Slavery to Freedom, with a new introduction by historian Eric Foner. First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious scholarship that had previously dominated the narrative, Franklin combines astute insight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive portrait of the era. Franklin’s arguments concerning the brevity of the North’s occupation, the limited power wielded by former slaves, the influence of moderate southerners, the flawed constitutions of the radical state governments, and the downfall of Reconstruction remain compelling today. This new edition of Reconstruction after the Civil War also includes a foreword by Eric Foner and a perceptive essay by Michael W. Fitzgerald.

Author : William L. Richter
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2009-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0810863367

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The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. There was a very real possibility that the union could have been sundered, resulting in a very different American history, and probably world history. But the union was held together by tough and determined leaders and by the economic muscle of the North. Following the end of the war, the period of American history known as Reconstruction followed. This was a period construed in many different ways. While the states were once again 'united,' many of the postwar efforts divided different segments of the population and failed to achieve their goals in an era too often remembered for carpetbaggers and scalawags, and Congressional imbroglios and incompetent government. This one-volume dictionary, with more than 800 entries covering the significant events, persons, politics, and economic and social themes in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, is a research tool for all levels of readers from high school and up. The extensive chronology, introductory essay, dictionary entries, and comprehensive bibliography introduce and lead the reader through the military and non-military actions of one of the most pivotal events in American history.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : Perennial
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060969899

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Examines the origins of Reconstruction during the Civil War, explores how African-American and white Southerners responded to defeat and the destruction of slavery, and examines the policies of Reconstruction governments and the reasons for their overthrow.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807122341

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One of the most misunderstood periods in American history, Reconstruction remains relevant today because its central issue -- the role of the federal government in protecting citizens' rights and promoting economic and racial justice in a heterogeneous society -- is still unresolved. America's Reconstruction examines the origins of this crucial time, explores how black and white Southerners responded to the abolition of slavery, traces the political disputes between Congress and President Andrew Johnson, and analyzes the policies of the Reconstruction governments and the reasons for their demise. America's Reconstruction was published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the era produced by the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia, and the Virginia Historical Society. The exhibit included a remarkable collection of engravings from Harper's Weekly, lithographs, and political cartoons, as well as objects such as sculptures, rifles, flags, quilts, and other artifacts. An important tool for deepening the experience of those who visited the exhibit, America's Reconstruction also makes this rich assemblage of information and period art available to the wider audience of people unable to see the exhibit in its host cities. A work that stands along as well as in proud accompaniment to the temporary collection, it will appeal to general readers and assist instructors of both new and seasoned students of the Civil War and its tumultuous aftermath.