Affairs of State : Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America / Morton Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Morton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HISTORY / United States / General.

United States--History--1865-1898.

United States, 1865-1900.

Local Subjects:

HISTORY / United States / General.

United States--History--1865-1898.

United States, 1865-1900.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This first modern history of American public life after the Civil War is a work of magisterial sweep and sophisticated insight. It will be the standard work on the era for many years to come. Integrating political, legal, and administrative history on a scale not previously attempted, Morton Keller examines crosscurrents in American institutions during a key transitional period in American history-a period that began with the end of a bloody civil war and ended with the beginning of massive industrialization. At the same time, he vividly captures the energy and optimism of a young country about to burst into the twentieth century. Keller begins by reviewing the twin legacies of the Civil War: a strengthened belief in an active national government and a vigorous drive toward civil equality. He moves on to the postwar years when centralizing and reformist tendencies were evident everywhere, not only in the Reconstructed South but also in a renewed North. After the 1880s, however, the pendulum began to swing back, and Americans faced the social and economic upheavals of the last decades of the nineteenth century with deeply divided views-an uncertainty that persists in our own day.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Tables

CHAPTER 1. The Weight of the War

PART ONE. The Postwar Polity 1865-1880

CHAPTER 2. The Politics of Reconstruction

CHAPTER 3. Postwar Governance

CHAPTER 4. The Quest for a Good Society

CHAPTER 5. The Political Economy of Postwar America

CHAPTER 6. The Southern Experience

CHAPTER 7. The Triumph of Organizational Politics

PART TWO. The Industrial Polity 1880-1900

CHAPTER 8. Governance in an Industrial Age

CHAPTER 9. The Province of the Law

CHAPTER 10. The Political Economy of Industrialism

CHAPTER 11. The Structure of Economic Regulation

CHAPTER 12. The Shock of Social Change: The Definition of Status

CHAPTER 13. The Shock of Social Change: The Control of Behavior

CHAPTER 14. The Politics of an Industrial Society

CHAPTER 15. The Crisis of the Nineties

CHAPTER 16. The Twentieth Century Polity

ABBREVIATIONS, INDEX

Abbreviations

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18188-3

OCLC:

1013943739