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A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (Civil War America)
Mark Wahlgren Summers
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Paperback. Reconstruction policy after the US Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was to save the Union with its republican institutions intact. Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril.
To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was--first and foremost--to save the Union with its republican institutions intact. During Reconstruction there were always fears in the mix--that the Civil War had settled ... Read more
Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril.
To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was--first and foremost--to save the Union with its republican institutions intact. During Reconstruction there were always fears in the mix--that the Civil War had settled ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Civil War America
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469620152
SKU
V9781469620152
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About Mark Wahlgren Summers
Mark Wahlgren Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is the author of seven books, including Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 and Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics (both UNC Press).
Reviews for A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (Civil War America)
Summer's clear prose dances with apt flourishes. . . . fresh, insightful, and relevant."
North Carolina Historical Review |"Carefully researched and congenially written. . . . An important and convincing book, as a well as a very engaging one. . . . Should encourage historians to pay more attention to the role of fear in Reconstruction-era politics."
Journal of Southern History |"A ... Read more
North Carolina Historical Review |"Carefully researched and congenially written. . . . An important and convincing book, as a well as a very engaging one. . . . Should encourage historians to pay more attention to the role of fear in Reconstruction-era politics."
Journal of Southern History |"A ... Read more