250 pages
English language
Published 1980 by Oxford University Press.
250 pages
English language
Published 1980 by Oxford University Press.
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.