The Republic for Which It Stands

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* List of Maps


* Editor's Introduction


* Introduction


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* 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


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* 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


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* 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


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* Conclusion


* Bibliographic Essay


* Index 

Autoreninfo

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.