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Additional authors

1. Prior, David (College teacher)

Description

1. x, 348 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "This volume examines the historical connections between the United States' Reconstruction and the country's emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism, and imperialism. In 1935, the great African American intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois argued in his Black Reconstruction in America that these two historical moments were intimately related. In particular, Du Bois averred that the nation's betrayal of the South's fledgling interracial democracy in the 1870s put reactionaries in charge of a country on the verge of global power, with world-historical implications. Working with the same chronological and geographical parameters, the contributors here take up targeted case studies, tracing the biographical, ideological, and thematic linkages that stretch across the postbellum and imperial moments. With an Introduction, eleven chapters, and an Afterword, this volume offers multiple perspectives based on original primary source research. The resulting composite picture points to a host of countervailing continuities and changes. The contributors examine topics as diverse as diplomatic relations with Spain, the changing views of radical abolitionists, African American missionaries in the Caribbean, and the ambiguities of turn-of-the century political cartoons. Collectively, the volume unsettles familiar assumptions about how we should understand the late nineteenth-century United States, conventionally framed as the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It also advances transnational approaches to understanding America's Reconstruction and the search for the ideological currents shaping American power abroad"--

Series statement

1. Reconstructing America

Uniform title

1. Reconstructing America (Series)

Subject

1. 1800-1933
2. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
3. Imperialism > History > 19th century
4. African Americans > Social conditions > History. > 19th century
5. Diplomatic relations
6. Imperialism
7. Politics and government
8. Social conditions
9. Territorial expansion
10. United States > Foreign relations > 1865-1921
11. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933
12. United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918
13. United States > Territorial expansion
14. United States > Race relations > History. > 19th century
15. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction / David Prior -- The last filibuster : the ten years' war in Cuba and the legacy of the American Civil War / Andre M. Fleche -- "What hinders?" : African Methodist expansion from the U.S. South to Hispaniola, 1865-1885 / Christina C. Davidson -- Domestic stability and imperial continuities : U.S.-Spanish relations in the Reconstruction era / Gregg French -- "Their very sectionalism makes them cultivate that wider and broader patriotism" : Southern free trade imperialism survives the Confederacy / Adrian Brettle -- James Redpath, rebel sympathizer / Lawrence B. Glickman -- "Our God-given mission" : Reconstruction and the humanitarian internationalism of the 1890s / Mark Elliott -- Connected lives : Albert Beveridge, Benjamin Tillman, and the Grand Army of the Republic / David V. Holtby -- The lynching of Frazier Baker : violence from Reconstruction to empire / D.J. Polite -- "The same patriotism ... as any other Americans" : Reconstruction, imperialism, and the evolution of Mormon patriotism / Reilly Ben Hatch -- Schooling "new-caught, sullen peoples" : illustrating race in U.S. empire / Brian Shott -- An empire of Reconstructions : Cuba and the transformation of American military occupation / Justin F. Jackson -- Afterword / Rebecca Edwards.

Call number

1. Sc E 22-789

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Reconstruction and empire : the legacies of abolition and Union victory for an imperial age / David Prior, editor.

Publisher

1. New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Reconstructing America
2. Reconstructing America (Series)

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1933

Added author

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

LCCN

1. 2021054451

ISBN

1. 9780823298648 hardcover
2. 0823298647 hardcover
3. 9780823298655 paperback
4. 0823298655 paperback

Research call number

1. Sc E 22-789