Richard White The Republic for Which It Stands (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Republic for Which It StandsCondition: NewSubtitle: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896Author: Richard WhiteFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 0199735816EAN: 9780199735815ISBN: 9780199735815Publisher: Oxford University Press IncGenre: HistoryTopic: Military HistoryRelease Date: 10/26/2017Description: The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America.At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences-ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political-divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change-technological, cultural, and political-proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country.In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 60mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 242mmItem Weight: 1561gBook Series: Oxford History of the United StatesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: The Republic for Which It Stands

Title: The Republic for Which It Stands

Subtitle: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-

ISBN-10: 0199735816

EAN: 9780199735815

ISBN: 9780199735815

Release Date: 10/26/2017

Release Year: 2017

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Series: Oxford History of the United States

Book Title: Republic for Which It Stands : the United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

Number of Pages: 968 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2017

Item Height: 2.3 in

Topic: United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), North America

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: History

Item Weight: 54.4 Oz

Item Length: 6.5 in

Author: Richard White

Book Series: Oxford History of the United States Ser.

Item Width: 9.3 in

Format: Hardcover