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Description

1. xii, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War

Uniform title

1. Conflicting worlds.

Subject

1. United States
2. Politics and government
3. 1865-1877
4. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
5. History
6. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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

1. JFE 20-2581

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Prior, David (College teacher), author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
2. Conflicting worlds.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1865-1877

LCCN

1. 2019018891

Other standard identifier

1. 40029601085

ISBN

1. 9780807169681 hardcover
2. 0807169684 hardcover
3. 9780807172438 electronic book
4. 9780807172445 electronic publication

Research call number

1. JFE 20-2581