| Description |
1 online resource (342 pages) |
| Series |
Civil War America |
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Civil War America (Series)
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| Contents |
Prologue: empire day? -- Paranoid politics, 1789-1861 -- Copperheads and consolidationists, 1861-1865 -- Black scare: the South after slavery -- Have we a constitution? -- Do they want still more blood? Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction -- Horrors on horrors accumulate: July 1866 -- Do you want Andrew Johnson for president or king? -- A dangerous stir in Maryland -- Impeachment fevers, 1867 -- If you don't kill the beast: impeachment at last -- Let us have peace -- The wolf who cried wolf -- Coda: the dog that barked too much at night |
| Summary |
Summers argues that reconstruction policy after the Civil War was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices, but also by fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril. Many factors shaped the reintegration of the former Confederate states and the North's commitment to Reconstruction, Summers agrees, but the fears of war reigniting, plots against liberty, and a president prepared to father a coup d'état ranked h |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Psychological aspects
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Fear -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Anxiety -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Anxiety
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Fear
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Psychological aspects
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Reconstruction.
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Politik.
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Alltag.
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Zukunftsangst.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469610405 |
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146961040X |
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