Robert Harrison

Washington During Civil War and Reconstruction

Race and Radicalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War, and into the lives of the newly emancipated African Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781107002326
• ISBN-10: 110700232X
• Artikelnr.: 33272400

Autorenporträt

Dr Robert Harrison (1944-2007) was a member of the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, for more than thirty years. His numerous publications on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American politics, particularly on Congress and the District of Columbia, made a very significant contribution to the field. They include State and Society in Twentieth-Century America (1997) and Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State (Cambridge University Press, 2004). An active participant in the research community of American history, Dr Harrison was a long-standing member of BAAS and was closely involved in the British American Nineteenth Century Historians' organization (BrANCH), organizing two major conferences on American history in 2000 and 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Phillipp Schofield
1. Introduction
2. Wartime Washington
3. The Freedmen's Bureau in the District of Columbia
4. An 'experimental garden for the propagation of political hybrids': congressional reconstruction in the District of Columbia
5. Reconstructing the city government
6. Race, radicalism, and reconstruction: grassroots Republican politics
7. A city and a state: governing the District of Columbia
8. From biracial democracy to direct rule: the end of self-government in the nation's capital
9. Conclusion.