A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of ReconstructionUniv of North Carolina Press, 2009 - 329 pages Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, notes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had |
Table des matières
Empire Day? | 1 |
1 Paranoid Politics 17891861 | 7 |
2 Copperheads and Consolidationists 18611865 | 23 |
The South after Slavery | 49 |
4 Have We a Constitution? | 69 |
Andrew Johnsons Reconstruction | 91 |
July 1866 | 115 |
7 Do You Want Andrew Johnson for President or King? | 137 |
9 Impeachment Fevers 1867 | 175 |
Impeachment at Last | 201 |
11 Let Us Have Peace | 223 |
12 The Wolf Who Cried Wolf | 245 |
The Dog That Barked Too Much at Night | 269 |
Notes | 273 |
Bibliography | 305 |
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