Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

by Eric Foner

Overview

Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery movement; and a final group of essays treats land and labor after the war. Taken together, Foner's essays work towards reintegrating the social, political, and intellectual history of the nineteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199878512
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/28/1981
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

I	Introduction	3
	Origins of the Civil War
II	The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions	15
III	Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American Civil War	34
	Ambiguities of Anti-Slavery
IV	Abolitionism and the Labor Movement in Ante-bellum America	57
V	Racial Attitudes of the New York Free Soilers	77
	Land and Labor After the Civil War
VI	Reconstruction and the Crisis of Free Labor	97
VII	Thaddeus Stevens, Confiscation, and Reconstruction	128
VIII	Class, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Gilded Age: The Land League and Irish-America	150
	Notes	201
	Acknowledgments	241
	Index	243

Editorial Reviews

"An important and invigorating book."—American Historical Review

"[The essays] address a great theme with style, with learning, with originality, and with a spirit of discovery and open-mindedness."—C. Vann Woodward, The New Republic

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