SECOND FOUNDING - Couverture souple

Quigley, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809085135 ISBN 13 : 9780809085132

Editeur : Hill and Wang, 1982

Synopsis

At the close of the Civil War, Americans found themselves drawn into a new conflict, one in which the basic shape of the nation's government had to be rethought and new rules for the democratic game had to be established. In this superb new study, David Quigley argues that New York City's politics and politicians lay at the heart of Reconstruction's intense, conflicted drama. In ways that we understand all too well today, New York history became national history.

The establishment of a postwar interracial democracy required the tearing down and rebuilding of many basic tenets of American government, yet, as Quigley shows in dramatic detail, the white supremacist traditions of the nation's leading city militated against a genuine revision of America's racial order, for New York politicians placed limits on the possibilities of true Reconstruction at every turn. Still, change did occur and a new America did take shape. Ironically, it was in New York City that new languages and practices for public life were developing which left an indelible mark on progressive national politics. Quigley's signal accomplishment is to show that the innovative work of New York's black activists, Tammany Democrats, bourgeois reformers, suffragettes, liberal publicists, and trade unionists resulted in a radical redefinition of reform in urban America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Quigley, a graduate of Amherst College and New York University, teaches history at Boston College. Second Founding is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hill and Wang
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809085135
• ISBN 13: 9780809085132
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible