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West from Appomattox
Heather Cox Richardson
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Description for West from Appomattox
Paperback. The story of Reconstruction is about how a middle class formed in America and how its members defined what the nation would stand for, both at home and abroad. Presenting the history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this book provides an understanding of the Reconstruction. Num Pages: 416 pages, 23 b&w illustrations + 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity that united three regions into a country that could become a world power. Ultimately, the story of Reconstruction is about how a middle class formed in America and how its members defined what the nation would stand for, both at home and abroad, for the next century and beyond.
A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book stretches the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson—whose daily "Letters From an American" Substack newsletter has attracted a wide following—ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South, encompassing the significant people and events of this profoundly important era.
By weaving together the experiences of real individuals—from a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer to Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull—who lived during the decades following the Civil War and who left records in their own words, Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America.
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity that united three regions into a country that could become a world power. Ultimately, the story of Reconstruction is about how a middle class formed in America and how its members defined what the nation would stand for, both at home and abroad, for the next century and beyond.
A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book stretches the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson—whose daily "Letters From an American" Substack newsletter has attracted a wide following—ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South, encompassing the significant people and events of this profoundly important era.
By weaving together the experiences of real individuals—from a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer to Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull—who lived during the decades following the Civil War and who left records in their own words, Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300136302
SKU
V9780300136302
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Ref
99-50
About Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College and the author of The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post–Civil War North.
Reviews for West from Appomattox
“The 50 years following the American Civil War often come to us as a blur of disconnected images, . . . a hiatus between the drama of the Civil War and World War I. . . . But in her ambitious West from Appomattox, Heather Cox Richardson argues that these years, far from being uneventful or insignificant, saw nothing less than the reconstruction of America, a recasting of the relationship between the government and the people. . . . Richardson’s perspective is engaging and reveals much that is fresh.”—Edward L. Ayers, Washington Post Book World “This well-written and perceptive history considers Reconstruction as a national—rather than strictly Southern—phenomenon that united the North, South, and West, and created the creed of middle-class individualism that would define the 20th century.”—Atlantic Monthly “A substantial achievement. . . . [Richardson] expertly redraws a map of post–Civil War America that only grows more complex a century-and-a-half later.”—Elizabeth Young, Chicago Tribune “An enormously impressive book. Engagingly written, based on research notable both for its depth and breadth, and arguing a bold, sweeping, and intelligent thesis. . . . A landmark contribution to our understanding of the making of the modern United States.”—Keith Cassidy, Canadian Journal of History Included in the Washington Post Book World’s Holiday Guide (2007) Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries “Richardson tells a different story about the United States as a whole during a reconceptualized period of ‘Reconstruction’ after the Civil War.”—Sheldon Hackney, University of Pennsylvania “Highly original, deeply researched, and important, West from Appomattox has the added advantage of being extremely well written: Heather Cox Richardson’s prose is clear, accessible, and compelling.”—Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago “With a marvelous sense of scope, narrative lucidity, and thorough research, Heather Cox Richardson makes the convincing case that Americans still live in the world that Reconstruction built—or left partly unbuilt. A skilled historian of political economy, Richardson has here written a new and important synthesis of late-nineteenth-century American society enmeshed in a great struggle to determine just what kind of country the Civil War had wrought. This book is deeply informed and a good read; it spurs our effort to help Americans realize that their reading must not stop with Appomattox.”—David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory “A truly fresh reconsideration—and a smart and wonderfully written one—of Reconstruction. Richardson pulls back to a genuinely national perspective, and in doing so gives us a strikingly original view of this vitally important time in the national story.”—Elliott West, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville