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The rise and fall of the second American republic : Reconstruction, 1860-1920 / Manisha Sinha.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: xxvii, 562 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1631498444
  • 9781631498442
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Contents:
Part one: The midwife of revolution, 1860-1870. Wartime reconstruction -- Presidential reconstruction -- Abolition democracy -- Part two: Grassroots reconstruction, 1865-1872. Freedpeople and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Black reconstruction -- The reconstruction of women's rights -- Part three: American thermidor, 1870-1890. The waning of reconstruction -- The counterrevolution of 1876 -- The conquest of the West -- The reign of capital -- Part four: From republic to empire 1890-1920. American empire -- The last reconstruction amendment.
Summary: "In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the 'corrupt bargain' of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha's startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote--and which Sinha calls the 'last Reconstruction amendment'"-- From publisher's description.
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We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, when freedpeople and the federal government attempted to create an interracial democracy in the south after the Civil War. That effort was overthrown and serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality. In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the usual temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction (1865-1877) to explain how the Civil War, the overthrow of Reconstruction, the conquest of the west, labor conflict in the north, Chinese exclusion, women's suffrage, and the establishment of an overseas American empire were part of the same struggle between the forces of democracy and those of reaction. Highlighting the critical role of black people in redefining American citizenship and governance, Sinha's book shows that Reconstruction laid the foundation of our democracy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: The midwife of revolution, 1860-1870. Wartime reconstruction -- Presidential reconstruction -- Abolition democracy -- Part two: Grassroots reconstruction, 1865-1872. Freedpeople and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Black reconstruction -- The reconstruction of women's rights -- Part three: American thermidor, 1870-1890. The waning of reconstruction -- The counterrevolution of 1876 -- The conquest of the West -- The reign of capital -- Part four: From republic to empire 1890-1920. American empire -- The last reconstruction amendment.

"In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the 'corrupt bargain' of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha's startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote--and which Sinha calls the 'last Reconstruction amendment'"-- From publisher's description.

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