Reconstruction in a globalizing world
by Prior, David, (College teacher)
As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period's racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about women's suffrage, and of course its struggle between freed slaves and their former masters. yet, on each of these fronts scholarship has attended overwhelmingly to the eastern United States, especially the South, thereby neglecting important trans…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Reconstruction in a globalizing world / David Prior, editor.
Summary
As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period's racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about women's suffrage, and of course its struggle between freed slaves and their former masters. yet, on each of these fronts scholarship has attended overwhelmingly to the eastern United States, especially the South, thereby neglecting important transnational linkages. This volume, examines Reconstruction's global connections and contexts in ways that, while honoring the field's accomplishments, move it beyond its southern focus. The volume brings together prominent and emerging scholars to showcase the deepening interplay between scholarship on Reconstruction and on America's place in world history. Through these essays, this book engages two dynamic fields of study to the benefit of them both. By demonstrating that the South and the eastern United States were connected to other parts of the globe in complex and important ways, the volume challenges scholars of Reconstruction to look outward. Likewise, examining these same connections will compel transnationally minded scholars to reconsider Reconstruction as a pivotal era in the shaping of the United States' relations with the rest of the world.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2018
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 224 pages : : illustration ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780823278312, 082327831X, 9780823278305, 0823278301
- oclc:ocn990716001
- LC Classification:E668
- Dewey Decimal:973.8/1
Table of Contents
Foreword / Ian Tyrrell -- Introduction / David Prior -- Our South American cousin: Domingo F. Sarmiento and education in Argentina and the United States / Evan C. Rothera -- Liberia College and transatlantic ideologies of race and education, 1860-1880 / Matthew J. Hetrick -- Transatlantic liberalism: Radical Republicans and the British Reform Act of 1867 / Mitchell Snay -- The arms scandal of 1870-1872: immigrant Liberal Republicans and America's place in the world / Alison Clark Efford -- "The failure of the men to come up": the reinvention of Irish-American nationalism / Caleb Richardson -- Incorporating German Texas: immigrant nation-building in the Southwest / Julia Brookins -- Reconstruction, from transatlantic polyseme to historiographical quandary / David Prior -- Afterword: the possibilities of Reconstruction's global history / Frank Towers.
Read More ↓Subjects
Writers
More from this Series
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
La sociologie: histoire, idées, courants
La sociologie: histoire, idées, courants
La sociologie: histoire, idées, courants
Karkhanas under the Mughals, from Akbar to Aurangzeb: a study in economic development
Verma, Tripta
Rate & Review