Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War
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. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery movement; and a final group of essays treats land and labor after the war. Taken together, Foner's essays work towards reintegrating the social, political, and intellectual history of the nineteenth century
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9780199727087, 0199727082
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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
I: Introduction
Origins of the Civil War
II: The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions
III: Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American Civil War
Ambiguities of Anti-Slavery
IV: Abolitionism and the Labor Movement in Ante-bellum America
V: Racial Attitudes of the New York Free Soilers
Land and Labor After the civil War
VI: Reconstruction and the Crisis of Free Labor
VII: Thaddeus Stevens, Confiscation, and Reconstruction. VIII: Class, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Gilded Age: The Land League and Irish-America
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index