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Informationen zum Autor David Prior is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico and the editor of Reconstruction in a Globalizing World. He is also an editor at the online forums H-Slavery and H-Nationalism. Klappentext "David Prior has written a fascinating and valuable study of America's Reconstruction within the context of sweeping domestic and international change. Between Freedom and Progress explores the impact of the development of mass communication, economics, evolving political and cultural thought, societal realignment, science and pseudo-science in framing Reconstruction in America."--Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln "With a fascinating series of unexpected case studies, Prior shows that global sensibilities were integral to the struggle over Reconstruction. Between Freedom and Progress is a tightly conceptualized, original, and stimulating history of political ideology. Its attention to tension and inconsistency make it an especially valuable contribution to the history of the Civil War era and the United States in the world."--Alison Efford, author of German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era Zusammenfassung Recovers and analyses the global imaginings of Reconstruction's partisans, those who struggled over and with Reconstruction, as they vied with one another to define the nature of their country after the Civil War.
