Between Freedom and Progress: The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics

by David Prior

Between Freedom and Progress recovers and analyzes the global imaginings of Reconstruction's partisans--those who struggled over and with Reconstruction--as they vied with one another to define the nature of their country after the Civil War. The remarkable technological and commercial transformations of the mid-nineteenth century--in particular, steam engines, telegraphs, and an expanded commercial printing capacity--created a constant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807169684
• ISBN13: 9780807169681
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"