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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Summers, Mark Wahlgren,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 618
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. The Gospel Of Prosperity
  • Chapter 1. "Our Poor Distressed Country"
  • Chapter 2. The Necessities of State Aid
  • Chapter 3. An Imaginative Reinterpretation of the Law
  • Part Two. A Covenant of Public Works: Legislating for the Railroads
  • Chapter 4. "Railroad Fevers" and the Party Line at the Capitols
  • Chapter 5. The Enemy Within: Parochialism Run Amok
  • Chapter 6. Winning Friends and Influencing Legislation
  • Part Three "The Glory is Departed from Israel" : Using the Railroads
  • Chapter 7. "Let the Representatives . . . Have a Hand in It."
  • Chapter 8. Testing the Gospel of Prosperity, 1870-1871
  • Chapter 9. "They Must Stand Aside . . .": The Republican Mission in Peril
  • Part Four. Balm in Gilead ? Financing the Railroads
  • Chapter 10. Friends in Need on Capitol Hill
  • Chapter 11. Friends in Deed on Wall Street? The Enemy Without
  • Chapter 12. Railroad Ties and Bonds: Construction, Credit, and the "Consumptive Purse"
  • Part Five. There Is No Salvation: The Fall of the Railroads
  • Chapter 13. The Alabama & Chattanooga Catastrophe
  • Chapter 14. "They Have Thus Prostituted . . ." : Republicanism Riven
  • Chapter 15. "A War Now Begins between These Roads and the People," 1873
  • Chapter 16. "Men are Giting Desperate . . .": The Panic, Collapse, and Survival of the Gospel of Prosperity, 1873-1880
  • Coda "And Was Jerusalem Builded Here ?"
  • Appendix. Could the Democrats Have Done Better?
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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