Reconstruction and Empire : : The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age / / ed. by David Prior.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Brettle, Adrian,; Davidson, Christina C,; Davidson, Christina C.,; Edwards, Rebecca,; Elliott, Mark,; Fleche, Andre M.,; Fleche, Andre,; French, Gregg,; Glickman, Lawrence B.,; Hatch, Reilly Ben,; Holtby, David V.,; Jackson, Justin F,; Jackson, Justin F.,; Polite, DJ,; Prior, David,; Shott, Brian,
• HerausgeberIn: Prior, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Reconstructing America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 The Last Filibuster: The Ten Years’ War in Cuba and the Legacy of the American Civil War
• 2 “What Hinders?”: African Methodist Expansion from the U.S. South to Hispaniola, 1865–1885
• 3 Domestic Stability and Imperial Continuities: U.S.–Spanish Relations in the Reconstruction Era
• 4 “Their very sectionalism makes them cultivate that wider and broader patriotism”: Southern Free Trade Imperialism Survives the Confederacy
• 5 James Redpath, Rebel Sympathizer
• 6 “Our God-Given Mission”: Reconstruction and the Humanitarian Internationalism of the 1890s
• 7 Connected Lives: Albert Beveridge, Benjamin Tillman, and the Grand Army of the Republic
• 8 The Lynching of Frazier Baker: Violence from Reconstruction to Empire
• 9 “The Same Patriotism . . . as Any Other Americans”: Reconstruction, Imperialism, and the Evolution of Mormon Patriotism
• 10 Schooling “New-Caught, Sullen Peoples”: Illustrating Race in U.S. Empire
• 11 An Empire of Reconstructions: Cuba and the Transformation of American Military Occupation
• Afterword
• Contributors
• Index