Dangerous Stir : Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction.
2009
E668
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Title
Dangerous Stir : Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction.
Author
ISBN
9781469610405
146961040X
9780807833049 (electronic bk.)
0807833045 (electronic bk.)
0807833045 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1469620154
9781469620152
146961040X
9780807833049 (electronic bk.)
0807833045 (electronic bk.)
0807833045 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1469620154
9781469620152
Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (342 pages)
Call Number
E668
System Control No.
(OCoLC)823386869
Summary
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 of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril. Many factors shaped the reintegration of the former Confederate states and the North's commitment to Reconstruction, Summers agrees, but the fears of war reigniting, plots against liberty, and a president prepared to father a coup d'état ranked h.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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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Series
Civil War America (Series)
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