Research Catalog

Title

Between freedom and progress : the lost world of Reconstruction politics / David Prior.

Author

Prior, David (College teacher)

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xii, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Between Freedom and Progress recovers and analyzes the global imaginings of Reconstruction's partisans--those who struggled over and with Reconstruction--as they vied with one another to define the nature of their country after the Civil War. The remarkable technological and commercial transformations of the mid-nineteenth century--in particular, steam engines, telegraphs, and an expanded commercial printing capacity--created a constant stream of news, description, and storytelling from across and beyond the nation. Reconstruction's partisans contended with each other to make sense of this information, motivated by intense political antagonism combined with a shared but contested set of ideas about freedom and progress. As writers, lecturers, editors, travelers, moral reformers, racists, abolitionists, politicians, suffragists, soldiers, and diplomats, Reconstruction's partisans made competing claims about their place in the world. Understanding how, why, and when they did so helps ground our understanding of Reconstruction--itself a mysterious, transatlantic term--in its own intellectual context"--

Series Statement

Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War

Uniform Title

Conflicting worlds.

Subject

• 1865-1877
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Politics and government
• United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Reconstruction's partisan world -- Contested sympathy for the Cretans -- Paul Du Chaillu, a white supremacist in passing -- From North and South to east and west -- "Our papers" -- Mormon Utah, the blossoming plague-spot.

Call Number

JFE 20-2581

ISBN

• 9780807169681
• 0807169684
• 9780807172438 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780807172445 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019018891
• 40029601085

OCLC

1099276498

Author

Prior, David (College teacher), author.

Title

Between freedom and progress : the lost world of Reconstruction politics / David Prior.

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War

Conflicting worlds.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1865-1877

Other Standard Identifier

40029601085

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2581