CIVIL WAR & RECON PA,9780393974270

CIVIL WAR & RECON PA

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ISBN13: 9780393974270
ISBN10: 0393974278
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-12-14
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civil War and Reconstruction-originally written by James G. Randall and revised by David Donald-is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition prepared by David Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
xi
Preface xiii
A Modernizing Nation, 1840--1860
1(26)
Expansion in Size and Numbers
1(4)
Reactions to Immigration
5(1)
Changes in Agriculture
6(3)
The Modernization of Transportation and Communication
9(1)
Changes in Industry
10(2)
A Changing Social Structure
12(1)
The Working Class
13(1)
The Growth of Cities
14(2)
Changes in Education
16(2)
The Spirit of the Age
18(5)
Antebellum Culture
23(4)
The Antebellum South
27(23)
Sectional Similarities
27(3)
Sectional Differences
30(5)
Southern Life and Society
35(7)
Life in the ``Big House''
42(3)
The Development of ``Southernism''
45(5)
Slavery, 1830--1860
50(24)
Past Studies of Slavery
50(1)
Early Attitudes Toward Slavery
51(1)
The Slave Trade
52(3)
The Development of Slavery in the South
55(3)
Free Blacks
58(2)
The Distribution and Concentration of Slaves
60(2)
Slave Management
62(1)
Slave Life and Culture
63(4)
Slave Resistance
67(4)
Slavery as a Regional Economic System
71(3)
Sectionalism Politicized, 1848--1857
74(25)
Wedges of Separation
74(3)
The Impact of Western Expansion
77(2)
The Compromise of 1850
79(6)
Pierce, Douglas, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
85(5)
New Parties
90(1)
Sectionalism in Kansas
91(5)
The Election of 1856
96(3)
A House Dividing, 1857--1860
99(26)
Radical Expressions of Sectionalism
100(1)
Slavery and the Supreme Court
101(6)
Kansas
107(2)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate
109(4)
John Brown's Raid
113(3)
The Presidential Contest of 1860
116(9)
The Secession Winter
125(24)
The Secession of the Lower South
126(6)
The Reaction of the Buchanan Administration
132(2)
Congress and the Secession Crisis
134(3)
The Washington Peace Conference
137(2)
Buchanan Stiffens
139(1)
The Formation of the Confederacy
140(9)
Lincoln, the Upper South, and the Sumter Crisis
149(19)
Lincoln Takes Office
150(2)
Reactions to Lincoln's Inaugural
152(2)
Reluctant Confederates
154(2)
Controversy over the Forts
156(7)
Reaction in the Upper South to War Measures
163(3)
Effects of the Mobilization Orders in the North
166(2)
The Border States
168(15)
Kentucky's Attempted Neutrality
169(3)
Maryland's Contested Unionism
172(3)
Delaware's Unquestioned Allegiance
175(1)
Violence in Missouri
176(3)
West Virginia's Secession From the Confederacy
179(4)
First Campaigns
183(20)
Resources, Goals, and Military Structures
183(8)
Early Battles: West Virginia and Bull Run
191(5)
Early Campaigns in the West
196(7)
The Virginia Front 1861--1863
203(22)
McClellan in Charge
203(4)
The Peninsular Campaign
207(3)
Robert E. Lee
210(2)
The Seven Days' Campaign
212(3)
Second Bull Run
215(1)
Antietam
216(6)
Burnside and Fredericksburg
222(3)
Union Measures and Men
225(22)
Military Structures
225(2)
Conscription
227(7)
Improvised War: Initial Efforts at Supplying the Army
234(3)
A Soldier's Life
237(3)
The Union Command System
240(2)
Handling Prisoners of War
242(5)
Problems of the Confederacy
247(24)
Mobilizing the Confederate Army
247(5)
Supplies and Resources
252(3)
Financing the War
255(6)
Alienation in The Confederacy
261(4)
Opposition by the States to the Confederacy
265(2)
Problems of Leadership
267(4)
The Union Government at War
271(25)
Early Presidential Decisions
271(3)
The Thirty-Seventh Congress
274(4)
Investigations by the Thirty-Seventh Congress
278(3)
An Activist Congress
281(6)
Opposition to The Government
287(2)
The Merryman, Vallandigham, and Milligan Cases
289(4)
Measuring Lincoln's Actions
293(3)
Financing the War in the North
296(13)
General Issues and Problems
296(1)
Treasury Department Proposals for Taxes and Loans
297(6)
Gold
303(2)
Banks and The Currency
305(2)
Evaluation of the Treasury Department
307(2)
The American Question Abroad
309(16)
European Attitudes Toward the North and South
310(4)
The Trent Affair
314(3)
The Failure of Cotton Diplomacy
317(2)
Crisis Over Recognition
319(2)
Confederate Warships and Rams
321(2)
Relations with Other Nations
323(2)
Emancipation: The War Redefined
325(22)
Initial Attitudes
325(4)
Congress and Emancipation
329(1)
Lincoln and Emancipation
330(6)
Blacks and Emancipation
336(3)
Black Soldiers
339(5)
Emancipation by States and the Thirteenth Amendment
344(3)
The War's Middle Phase
347(23)
Chancellorsville
348(2)
Gettysburg
350(7)
Early Operations in the west
357(4)
Vicksburg
361(4)
The Battles of Chattanooga and Chickamauga
365(5)
Military Campaigns in 1864
370(24)
The Soldiers' Life
371(5)
The Wilderness Campaign
376(3)
Continuing Battles in Northern Virginia
379(2)
Other Virginia Campaigns, May-September 1864
381(4)
Sherman's Campaign
385(9)
The Naval War
394(15)
Organizing the Confederate and Union Navies
395(4)
Battles of the Ironclads
399(2)
The Union's Coordinated Army-navy Operations
401(3)
Privateers and Confederate Raiders
404(2)
Union Coastal Operations After 1862
406(3)
Northern Politics, 1861--1864
409(19)
The Republicans
410(1)
Opposition to Lincoln
411(2)
The 1862 Elections
413(2)
The Cabinet Crisis
415(1)
The Democratic Challenge in 1863
416(2)
Lincoln's Renomination
418(2)
The Peace Movement
420(3)
Further Political Challenges to Lincoln
423(1)
The Democratic Nomination of McClellan and the 1864 Presidential Vote
424(4)
The Home Front in the North
428(21)
Effects of Mobilization on Northern Women
428(4)
The Northern Economy
432(5)
The Labor Movement
437(1)
Urban Society
438(2)
Private and Public Assistance
440(3)
Shaping Northern Opinion
443(2)
Northern Newspapers During the War
445(2)
Religion in the North
447(2)
The Collapse of the Confederacy
449(16)
Northern Occupation of the South
450(3)
Desertion
453(2)
Women of the Confederacy
455(4)
Shortages and Nationalization
459(2)
Subversion in the Confederacy
461(2)
Religion and the Confederate Collapse
463(2)
The End of the War
465(12)
Military Actions in 1865
465(9)
Epilogue
474(3)
The Challenge of Reconstruction: Legacies of the War in the North
477(17)
Initial Postwar Attitudes in the North
479(3)
Economic Legacies of the War in the North
482(7)
The Northern Economy, Politics, and Reconstruction
489(3)
The Challenge of Reconstruction
492(2)
The Challenge of Reconstruction: Legacies of the War in the South
494(14)
Immediate Postwar Chaos
494(2)
A Shattered Economy
496(2)
An Incomplete Economic Recovery
498(2)
The Reorganization of Southern Agriculture
500(3)
Contested Meanings of Freedom: Black Aspirations Versus White Expectations
503(4)
Toward Political Reconstruction
507(1)
Presidential Reconstruction
508(16)
Presidential Reconstruction Under Lincoln
508(4)
The 10 Percent Plan in Operation
512(1)
Louisiana and the Congressional Backlash Against Lincoln
513(5)
Presidential Reconstruction Under Andrew Johnson
518(6)
Responses to Presidential Reconstruction
524(12)
The Southern Response to Johnson's Policies
525(3)
Congressional Republicans Respond to Johnson's Program
528(8)
Congressional Reconstruction: The First Phase
536(20)
The Protagonists: Radicals and Moderates
537(6)
The Fourteenth Amendment
543(7)
The Congressional Elections of 1866
550(6)
Congressional Reconstruction: The Second Phase, 1867--1869
556(21)
The Military Reconstruction Acts
558(3)
What the Military Reconstruction Acts Signified
561(3)
Grant, The Army, and Reconstruction
564(2)
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
566(6)
The Triumph of the Moderates
572(5)
Reconstruction in the South
577(16)
The Republican Coalition and the Myth of Black Reconstruction
580(5)
Republican Governance: The Constitutional Conventions
585(3)
Republican Governance: Expansion of the Public Sphere
588(5)
The Failure of Reconstruction in the South
593(12)
The Pattern of Southern Politics
593(4)
The Politics of the Center, 1869--1873
597(2)
The Politics of Polarization, 1873--1877
599(3)
Constant White Terrorism and Fluctuating Federal Intervention
602(3)
The North, the Grant Administration, and Reconstruction
605(12)
Grant as President
606(3)
The Political Context of Grant's Presidency
609(1)
The Fifteenth Amendment
610(2)
The Enforcement Acts
612(3)
The Liberal Republican Movement and the Border States
615(2)
The Retreat from Reconstruction
617(16)
Liberal Republicanism and its Consequences
617(4)
The Supreme Court and Reconstruction
621(2)
The Panic of 1873 and the Specter of Realignment
623(3)
The Republicans Turn Northward
626(3)
Realignment Averted
629(4)
The End of Reconstruction
633(12)
The Disputed Results
634(2)
The Electoral Commission
636(2)
The ``Compromise of 1877''
638(4)
Consequences
642(3)
Notes 645(71)
Suggested Readings 716(8)
Credits 724(3)
Index 727

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