West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil WarYale University Press, 28 Mar 2007 - 416 halaman “This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly). The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a national identity that united three very different regions into a country that could become a world power. A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book tracks the formation of the American middle class while stretching the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South. By weaving together the experiences of real individuals who left records in their own words—from ordinary Americans such as a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer, to prominent historical figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull—Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America. |
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... wage earners to depend on capitalists while still permitting them to participate in politics. Economically and thus politically dependent, northern workers were not equals to their fellow citizens but rather were ''wage-slaves ...
... wage earners to depend on capitalists while still permitting them to participate in politics. Economically and thus politically dependent, northern workers were not equals to their fellow citizens but rather were ''wage-slaves ...
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... wages and respect from their white neighbors.≤π Hampton no longer led all southern white men either, since the realities of war had stripped away the proslavery rhetoric that called all white men equal. Poorer southerners had never ...
... wages and respect from their white neighbors.≤π Hampton no longer led all southern white men either, since the realities of war had stripped away the proslavery rhetoric that called all white men equal. Poorer southerners had never ...
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... wages for workers and greater profits for employers. In a world of small producers, such a rosy view of the relationship between employers and their workers was not unrealistic; workers in small shops knew their employer, greeted him on ...
... wages for workers and greater profits for employers. In a world of small producers, such a rosy view of the relationship between employers and their workers was not unrealistic; workers in small shops knew their employer, greeted him on ...
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... wages of free workers until they, too, became dependent on overlords. Schurz was watching from the Senate gallery in 1854 when northern Democrats voted the party line to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, overturning the tradition of a free ...
... wages of free workers until they, too, became dependent on overlords. Schurz was watching from the Senate gallery in 1854 when northern Democrats voted the party line to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, overturning the tradition of a free ...
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... wages and fired at will. Trapped in exhausting factory jobs and paid so little that it took a number of wage earners to support a family, unskilled workers often lived in squalor. Arriving from England during the war, thirteen-year-old ...
... wages and fired at will. Trapped in exhausting factory jobs and paid so little that it took a number of wage earners to support a family, unskilled workers often lived in squalor. Arriving from England during the war, thirteen-year-old ...
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