Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-302) and index.
Contents:
I: Politics, the Constitution, and reconstruction -- Preserving the Constitution : the conservative basis of radical reconstruction -- The rout of radicalism : Republicans and the elections of 1867 -- A new look at the impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- II: Parties and factions in Civil War-era politics -- The party, going strong : Congress and elections in the mid-nineteenth century -- Factionalism and representation : some insight from the nineteenth-century United States -- III: Politics, the Constitution, and the retreat from reconstruction -- The politics of reconstruction -- Salmon P. Chase and constitutional politics -- The problem of constitutionalism and constitutional liberty in the reconstruction South -- Reform Republicans and the retreat from reconstruction -- Southern Democrats in the crisis of 1876-77 : a reconsideration of reunion and reaction.
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