Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity : : Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877 /

Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity : : Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877 / / Mark Wahlgren Summers.

This book describes the southern Republicans' post- Civil War railroad aid program--the central element of the Gospel of Prosperity" designed to reestablish a vigorous economy in the devastated South. Conceding that race and Unionism were basic issues, Mark W. Summers explores a neglected...

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Summers, Mark Wahlgren,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
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Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 618
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Part One. The Gospel Of Prosperity --   |t Chapter 1. "Our Poor Distressed Country" --   |t Chapter 2. The Necessities of State Aid --   |t Chapter 3. An Imaginative Reinterpretation of the Law --   |t Part Two. A Covenant of Public Works: Legislating for the Railroads --   |t Chapter 4. "Railroad Fevers" and the Party Line at the Capitols --   |t Chapter 5. The Enemy Within: Parochialism Run Amok --   |t Chapter 6. Winning Friends and Influencing Legislation --   |t Part Three "The Glory is Departed from Israel" : Using the Railroads --   |t Chapter 7. "Let the Representatives . . . Have a Hand in It." --   |t Chapter 8. Testing the Gospel of Prosperity, 1870-1871 --   |t Chapter 9. "They Must Stand Aside . . .": The Republican Mission in Peril --   |t Part Four. Balm in Gilead ? Financing the Railroads --   |t Chapter 10. Friends in Need on Capitol Hill --   |t Chapter 11. Friends in Deed on Wall Street? The Enemy Without --   |t Chapter 12. Railroad Ties and Bonds: Construction, Credit, and the "Consumptive Purse" --   |t Part Five. There Is No Salvation: The Fall of the Railroads --   |t Chapter 13. The Alabama & Chattanooga Catastrophe --   |t Chapter 14. "They Have Thus Prostituted . . ." : Republicanism Riven --   |t Chapter 15. "A War Now Begins between These Roads and the People," 1873 --   |t Chapter 16. "Men are Giting Desperate . . .": The Panic, Collapse, and Survival of the Gospel of Prosperity, 1873-1880 --   |t Coda "And Was Jerusalem Builded Here ?" --   |t Appendix. Could the Democrats Have Done Better? --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index --   |t Backmatter 
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