ELEC copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment
Elecresource
Contents:
Note on statistical and geographic analysis -- Part I. Sectionalism -- Sectionalism : the view from the Midwest -- Gold and paper : how money became sectional -- Economic policy and spatial justice : taxation and the tariff -- Part II. Reconstruction -- Closing the books on the war : republicanism, civil rights, finance -- For the good of the country and the party -- The Republican retreat to the North -- Epilogue: On space in politics
Summary:
"This book argues that Northern disputes over public debt, greenbacks, and tariffs, as well as national economic consequences of the Civil War, undermined Reconstruction as much as Southern race relations and constitutional issues"--Provided by publisher
Topic:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Search this
