A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
(Part of the Civil War America Series)
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Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were 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.
To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807833045
ISBN13:9780807833049
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:342 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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