Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 "The Cares of Your Country Are a Paramount Duty": The Republicans in 1861
  • 2 "Now Is the Time for Making Money, by Honest Contracts, Out of the Government": War Bo n d s
  • 3 "A Centralization of Power, Such as Hamilton Might Have Eulogised as Magnificent": Monetary Legislation
  • 4 "Directing the Legislation of the Country to the Improvement of the Country": Tariff and Ta x Le g i s l a t i o n
  • 5 "A Large Crop Is More Than a Great Victory": Agricultural Legislation.
  • 6 "It Was Statesmanship to Give Treeless Prairies Value": The Transcontinental Railroad
  • 7 "See That All Their Blessings Are the Result of Their Own Labor": Republicans and Slavery
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.