Between freedom and progress : the lost world of Reconstruction politics / David Prior.

"Between Freedom and Progress recovers and analyzes the global imaginings of Reconstruction's partisans--those who struggled over and with Reconstruction--as they vied with one another to define the nature of their country after the Civil War. The remarkable technological and commercial transformati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prior, David (College teacher) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877.
Politics and government.
United States.
1865-1877
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 258 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : Reconstruction's partisan world
  • Contested sympathy for the Cretans
  • Paul Du Chaillu, a white supremacist in passing
  • From North and South to east and west
  • "Our papers"
  • Mormon Utah, the blossoming plague-spot.