Liveright Publishing Corporationa division of W.W. Norton & Company,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
xxvii, 562 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part one: The midwife of revolution, 1860-1870. Wartime reconstruction -- Presidential reconstruction -- Abolition democracy -- Part two: Grassroots reconstruction, 1865-1872. Freedpeople and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Black reconstruction -- The reconstruction of women's rights -- Part three: American thermidor, 1870-1890. The waning of reconstruction -- The counterrevolution of 1876 -- The conquest of the West -- The reign of capital -- Part four: From republic to empire 1890-1920. American empire -- The last reconstruction amendment.
Summary:
"In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the 'corrupt bargain' of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha's startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote--and which Sinha calls the 'last Reconstruction amendment'"-- From publisher's description.
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