Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

Insisting That Politics And Ideology Must Remain At The Forefront Of Any Examination Of Nineteenth-century America, Foner Reasserts The Centrality Of The Civil War To The People Of That Period. Taken Together, The Essays Work Towards Reintegrating The Social, Political, And Intellectual History Of The Nineteenth Century. Origins Of The Civil War -- The Causes Of The American Civil War: Recent Interpretations And New Directions -- Politics, Ideology, And The Origins Of The American Civil War -- Ambiguities Of Anti-slavery -- Abolitionism And The Labor Movement In Ante-bellum America -- Racial Attitudes Of The New York Free Soilers -- Land And Labor After The Civil War -- Reconstruction And The Crisis Of Free Labor -- Thaddeus Stevens, Confiscation, And Reconstruction -- Class, Ethnicity, And Radicalism In The Gilded Age: The Land League And Irish-america. Eric Foner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 I: Introduction......Page 9 Origins of the Civil War......Page 21 II: The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions......Page 22 III: Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American Civil War......Page 46 Ambiguities of Anti-Slavery......Page 71 IV: Abolitionism and the Labor Movement in Ante-bellum America......Page 72 V: Racial Attitudes of the New York Free Soilers......Page 97 Land and Labor After the civil War......Page 118 VI: Reconstruction and the Crisis of Free Labor......Page 119 VII: Thaddeus Stevens, Confiscation, and Reconstruction......Page 158 VIII: Class, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Gilded Age: The Land League and Irish-America......Page 186 Notes......Page 250 Acknowledgments......Page 324 Index......Page 325 Studies the interrelationship of social, political, and intellectual forces shaping the Civil War era, and the ways historians have interpreted them