Reconstruction and empire : the legacies of abolition and Union victory for an imperial age / David Prior, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prior, David (College teacher), editor.

Series:

Reconstructing America.

Fordham scholarship online.

Reconstructing America

Fordham scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

United States--Territorial expansion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This volume examines the historical connections between the United States' reconstruction and the country's emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism and imperialism.

Contents:

Introduction / David Prior

The last filibuster : the ten years' war in Cuba and the legacy of the American Civil War / Andre M. Fleche

"What hinders?" : African Methodist expansion from the U.S. South to Hispaniola, 1865-1885 / Christina C. Davidson

Domestic stability and imperial continuities : U.S.-Spanish relations in the Reconstruction era / Gregg French

"Their very sectionalism makes them cultivate that wider and broader patriotism" : Southern free trade imperialism survives the Confederacy / Adrian Brettle

James Redpath, rebel sympathizer / Lawrence B. Glickman

"Our God-given mission" : Reconstruction and the humanitarian internationalism of the 1890s / Mark Elliott

Connected lives : Albert Beveridge, Benjamin Tillman, and the Grand Army of the Republic / David V. Holtby

The lynching of Frazier Baker : violence from Reconstruction to empire / D.J. Polite

"The same patriotism ... as any other Americans" : Reconstruction, imperialism, and the evolution of Mormon patriotism / Reilly Ben Hatch

Schooling "new-caught, sullen peoples" : illustrating race in U.S. empire / Brian Shott

An empire of Reconstructions : Cuba and the transformation of American military occupation / Justin F. Jackson

Afterword / Rebecca Edwards.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5315-0067-6

0-8232-9866-3

OCLC:

1290377914