A dangerous stir
Subtitle: fear, paranoia, and the making of reconstruction
By: Mark Wahlgren Summers.
Contributors: Gallagher, Gary W.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780807833049
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Psychological aspects; Fear -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Anxiety -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: "Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears - often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril. In A Dangerous Stir, Summers illuminates the ways in which these fears and anxieties affected the politics of the immediate post-Civil War years."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.