Politics and ideology in the age of the Civil War / Eric Foner.

By: Foner, Eric Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1980. Description: 250 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0195027817Subject(s): Antislavery movements -- United States | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- CausesDDC classification: 973.7'11 LOC classification: E459 | .F67Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC 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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	973.7 11 FOP 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		4188

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC 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.

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.

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