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Foner, Eric.

Politics and ideology in the age of the Civil War / Eric Foner. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1980. - 250 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins of the Civil War --
The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions --
Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American Civil War --
Ambiguities of Anti-Slavery --
Abolitionism and the Labor Movement in Ante-bellum America --
Racial Attitudes of the New York Free Soilers --
Land and Labor After the Civil War --
Reconstruction and the Crisis of Free Labor --
Thaddeus Stevens, Confiscation, and Reconstruction --
Class, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Gilded Age: The Land League and Irish-America. TOC


Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. Taken together, the essays work towards reintegrating the social, political, and intellectual history of the nineteenth century.



ISBN: 0195027817

LCCN: 80013024

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Antislavery movements--United States.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865

LC Class. No.: E459 / .F67

Dewey Class. No.: 973.7'11 / FOP 1980