Richard White (Stanfo Margaret Byrne Professor of American History

The Republic for Which It Stands

The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

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Produktbeschreibung

The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstruction-its conflicts, rapid and disorienting change, hopes and fears-formed the template of American modernity.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of the United States
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 968
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1574g
• ISBN-13: 9780199735815
• ISBN-10: 0199735816
• Artikelnr.: 47866701

Autorenporträt

Richard White is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, and "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Mellon Distinguished Scholar Award, among other awards.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Editor's Introduction
Introduction
Part I: Reconstructing the Nation
Prologue: Mourning Lincoln
Chapter One: In the Wake of War
Chapter Two: Radical Reconstruction
Chapter Three: The Greater Reconstruction
Chapter Four: Home
Chapter Five: Gilded Liberals
Chapter Six: Triumph of Wage Labor
Chapter Seven: Panic
Chapter Eight: Beginning a Second Century
Part II: The Quest for Prosperity
Chapter Nine: Years of Violence
Chapter Ten: The Party of Prosperity
Chapter Eleven: People in Motion
Chapter Twelve: Liberal Orthodoxy and Radical Opinions
Chapter Thirteen: Dying for Progress
Chapter Fourteen: The Great Upheaval
Chapter Fifteen: Reform
Chapter Sixteen: Westward the Course of Reform
Chapter Seventeen: The Center Fails to Hold
Chapter Eighteen: The Poetry of a Pound of Steel
Part III: The Crisis Arrives
Chapter Nineteen: The Other Half
Chapter Twenty: Dystopian and Utopian America
Chapter Twenty-one: The Great Depression
Chapter Twenty-two: Things Fall Apart
Chapter Twenty-three: An Era Ends
Conclusion
Bibliographic Essay
Index