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Chargement... West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil Warpar Heather Cox Richardson
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The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity that united three regions into a country that could become a world power. Ultimately, the story of Reconstruction is about how a middle class formed in America and how its members defined what the nation would stand for, both at home and abroad, for the next century and beyond. A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book stretches 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, encompassing the significant people and events of this profoundly important era. By weaving together the experiences of real individuals-from a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer to Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull-who lived during the decades following the Civil War and who left records in their own words, Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I chose this book from a list of books on Reconstruction, and while I agree that it was about the U.S. in the period after the Civil War, and the way the concept of the U.S. was changing during that time, I was a little disappointed with how little time was spent on capital R Reconstruction of the South. The book did give a lot of interesting context to what else was going on in America at they time -- what shaped the forces that perhaps caused Reconstruction to go the way that it did -- however I did feel that the subtitle (The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War) gives a misleading impression. I wouldn't recommend this as the first book you read on Reconstruction, but I would certainly recommend it as the second or the third.
There is a lot of context to give. I think I appreciated most the information on the settling of the West post-Civil War, on Deadwood and Black cowboys and the beginning of the National Park system. As always, with any good history book, this left me with a list of topics I want to learn more about -- the towns settled, owned, and governed by Black people after the war, the ways the once united abolition and women's suffrage movements were split apart, the history of Chinese immigration and exclusion in the west.
An ambitious and valuable work. (