Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic : Reconstruction, 1860-1920

Sinha, Manisha

ISBN 10: 1324096284 / ISBN 13: 9781324096283

Verlag: Liveright, 2025

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• Titel: Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic : Reconstruction, 1860-1920
• Verlag: Liveright
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1324096284
• ISBN-13: 9781324096283
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

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We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality.The Rise and Fall of the Second American RepublicWithin this grand frame, Sinha narrates the rise and fall of what she calls the "Second American Republic." The Reconstruction of the South, a process driven by the alliance between the formerly enslaved at the grassroots and Radical Republicans in Congress, is central to her story, but only part of it. As she demonstrates, the US Army’s conquest of Indigenous nations in the West, labor conflict in the North, Chinese exclusion, women’s suffrage, and the establishment of an overseas American empire were all part of the same struggle between the forces of democracy and those of reaction. The main concern of Reconstruction was the plight of the formerly enslaved, but its fall affected other groups as well: women, workers, immigrants, and Native Americans. From the election of black legislators across the South in the late 1860s to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 to the colonial war in the Philippines in the 1890s, Sinha narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces us to key individuals, famous and otherwise, who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom.The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

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Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize among several others and was long listed for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction.