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Between Freedom and Progress

The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics

By: David Prior

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Between Freedom and Progress

The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics

By: 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 transformations of the mid-nineteenth century—in particular, steam engines, telegraphs, and an expanded commercial printing capacity—created a constant stream of news, description, and storytelling from across and beyond the nation. Reconstruction’s partisans contended with each other to make sense of this information, motivated by intense political antagonism combined with a shared but contested set of ideas about freedom and progress. As writers, lecturers, editors, travelers, moral reformers, racists, abolitionists, politicians, suffragists, soldiers, and diplomats, Reconstruction’s partisans made competing claims about their place in the world. Understanding how, why, and when they did so helps ground our understanding of Reconstruction—itself a mysterious, transatlantic term—in its own intellectual context. Three factors proved pivotal to the making of Reconstruction’s world. First, from 1865 to the early 1870s, the interconnected issues of how to remake the Union and how to remake the South exerted a powerful hold on federal politics, defining the partisan landscape and inspiring rival arguments about what was possible and what was good. The daunting nature of these issues created a sense of crisis across the political spectrum, with political discourse ranging in tone from combative to euphoric to apocalyptic. Second, though domestic in nature, these issues were refracted through two broadly held beliefs: that the causes of freedom and progress defined history and that distinctive peoples with their own characters composed the world’s population. These beliefs produced a disposition to think of developments from across and beyond the United States as essentially relatable to each other, encouraging an intellectual style that favored wide-ranging comparisons. Third, far from being confined to the elite, this mode of thinking and arguing about the world lived and breathed in public texts that were produced and consumed on a weekly and daily basis. This commercialized and politicized world of mass publishing was highly unequal in structure and content, but it was also impressively vibrant and popular. Together, these three factors made the world of Reconstruction a global landscape of information, argumentation, and imagination that derived much of its vigor from domestic political battles.

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LSU Press

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0807172448

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Wilmington's Lie

The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

By: David Zucchino

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Wilmington's Lie

The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

By: David Zucchino

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, searing account of the 1898 white supremacist riot and coup in Wilmington, North Carolina. By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state—and the South—white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny. In 1898, in response to a speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of Southern womanhood against the supposed threat of black predators, Alexander Manly, the outspoken young Record editor, wrote that some relationships between black men and white women were consensual. His editorial ignited outrage across the South, with calls to lynch Manly. But North Carolina’s white supremacist Democrats had a different strategy. They were plotting to take back the state legislature in November “by the ballot or bullet or both,” and then use the Manly editorial to trigger a “race riot” to overthrow Wilmington’s multi-racial government. Led by prominent citizens including Josephus Daniels, publisher of the state’s largest newspaper, and former Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell, white supremacists rolled out a carefully orchestrated campaign that included raucous rallies, race-baiting editorials and newspaper cartoons, and sensational, fabricated news stories. With intimidation and violence, the Democrats suppressed the black vote and stuffed ballot boxes (or threw them out), to win control of the state legislature on November 8th. Two days later, more than 2,000 heavily armed Red Shirts swarmed through Wilmington, torching the Record office, terrorizing women and children, and shooting at least sixty black men dead in the streets. The rioters forced city officials to resign at gunpoint and replaced them with mob leaders. Prominent blacks—and sympathetic whites—were banished. Hundreds of terrified black families took refuge in surrounding swamps and forests. This brutal insurrection is a rare instance of a violent overthrow of an elected government in the United States. It halted gains made by blacks and restored racism as official government policy, cementing white rule for another half century. It was not a “race riot,” as the events of November 1898 came to be known, but rather a racially motivated rebellion launched by white supremacists. In Wilmington’s Lie, Pulitzer Prize–winner David Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality. This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American history.

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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0802146481

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9780802146489

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

By: David Prior

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Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

By: David Prior

As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about woman suffrage, and of course its struggle between freed slaves and their former masters. Yet, on each of these fronts scholarship has attended overwhelmingly to the eastern United States, especially the South, thereby neglecting important transnational linkages. This volume, the first of its kind, will examine Reconstruction’s global connections and contexts in ways that, while honoring the field’s accomplishments, move it beyond its southern focus. The volume will bring together prominent and emerging scholars to showcase the deepening interplay between scholarships on Reconstruction and on America’s place in world history. Through these essays, Reconstruction in a Globalizing World will engage two dynamic fields of study to the benefit of them both. By demonstrating that the South and the eastern United States were connected to other parts of the globe in complex and important ways, the volume will challenge scholars of Reconstruction to look outwards. Likewise, examining these same connections will compel transnationally-minded scholars to reconsider Reconstruction as a pivotal era in the shaping of the United States’ relations with the rest of the world.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823278328

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9780823278329

A Just and Lasting Peace

A Documentary History of Reconstruction

By: John David Smith

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A Just and Lasting Peace

A Documentary History of Reconstruction

By: John David Smith

This anthology of primary documents traces Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the way Americans—Northern, Southern, black, and white—responded to the changes unleashed by the surrender at Appomattox and the end of slavery. Showcasing an impressive collection of original documents, including government publications, newspaper articles, speeches, pamphlets, and personal letters, this book captures the voices of a broad range of Americans, including Civil War veterans, former slaveholders, Northerners living in the South, and African-American men and women who lived through one of the most trying, complex, and misunderstood periods of American history.

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Penguin

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1101617462

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9781101617465

The Microeconomics Of The Timber Industry

By: David H. Jackson

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The Microeconomics Of The Timber Industry

By: David H. Jackson

First published in 1980. After its completion it was presented to Midwestern Forest Economists meeting in 1975 renamed as "The Competitive Theory of Timber Production: A Capitalistic Manifesto to Sustained Yield Forestry." The purpose of this book is to provide a better linkage between microeconomic theory and forestry. The intended audience is forest economists, resource economists, graduate students interested in forest management and economics and others interested in an economic framework useful in viewing major public policies.

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Routledge

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1000303330

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Militarization and the American Century

War, the United States and the World since 1941

By: David Fitzgerald

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Militarization and the American Century

War, the United States and the World since 1941

By: David Fitzgerald

Taking American mobilization in WWII as its departure point, this book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to the history of militarization in the United States since 1940. Exploring the ways in which war and the preparation for war have shaped and affected the United States during 'The American Century', Fitzgerald demonstrates how militarization has moulded relations between the US and the rest of the world. Providing a timely synthesis of key scholarship in a rapidly developing field, this book shows how national security concerns have affected issues as diverse as the development of the welfare state, infrastructure spending, gender relations and notions of citizenship. It also examines the way in which war is treated in the American imagination; how it has been depicted throughout this era, why its consequences have been made largely invisible and how Americans have often considered themselves to be reluctant warriors. In integrating domestic histories with international and transnational topics such as the American 'empire of bases' and the experience of American service personnel overseas, the author outlines the ways in which American militarization had, and still has, global consequences. Of interest to scholars, researchers and students of military history, war studies, US foreign relations and policy, this book addresses a burgeoning and dynamic field from which parallels and comparisons can be drawn for the modern day.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350102245

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The Imprint of Congress

By: David R. Mayhew

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The Imprint of Congress

By: David R. Mayhew

An insightful examination of the imprint of Congress on politics and society throughout American history by a distinguished congressional scholar

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Yale University Press

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0300215703

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9780300215700

Movement Disorders, Third Edition

By: Ray L. Watts,David G. Standaert,José Obeso

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Movement Disorders, Third Edition

By: Ray L. Watts,David G. Standaert,José Obeso

A comprehensive clinical reference on managing the entire spectrum of movement disorders NEW DVD with video clips Featuring contributions from more than one hundred leading experts, this full-color text covers pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of all movement disorders - from ataxia to Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders examines the neurobehavioral changes and comorbidities that frequently occur and incorporates the latest genetic information and the most current references. Chapters cover Clinical Presentation and Course, Pathophysiology, Differential Diagnosis, Etiologies, and Treatment. The third edition is highlighted by a new full-color presentation, more than 240 color illustrations and photos, and a DVD with video clips of patients with movement disorders.

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0071613102

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Book's by David P. Downs

Between Freedom and Progress

Between Freedom and Progress

Wilmington's Lie

Wilmington's Lie

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

A Just and Lasting Peace

A Just and Lasting Peace

The Microeconomics Of The Timber Industry

The Microeconomics Of The Timber Industry

Militarization and the American Century

Militarization and the American Century

The Imprint of Congress

The Imprint of Congress

Movement Disorders, Third Edition

Movement Disorders, Third Edition

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