Dangerous Stir : Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction.

Summers argues that reconstruction policy after the Civil War was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices, but also by fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Summers, Mark Wahlgren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
Temas:
1800-1899
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Psychological aspects.
Fear > United States > History > 19th century.
Anxiety > United States > History > 19th century.
Peur > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Anxiety.
Fear.
Psychological aspects.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: empire day?
  • Paranoid politics, 1789-1861
  • Copperheads and consolidationists, 1861-1865
  • Black scare: the South after slavery
  • Have we a constitution?
  • Do they want still more blood? Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction
  • Horrors on horrors accumulate: July 1866
  • Do you want Andrew Johnson for president or king?
  • A dangerous stir in Maryland
  • Impeachment fevers, 1867
  • If you don't kill the beast: impeachment at last
  • Let us have peace
  • The wolf who cried wolf
  • Coda: the dog that barked too much at night.

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