A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction

by Mark Wahlgren Summers

Book Overview

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.

To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469620154
• ISBN13: 9781469620152
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"