The age of Reconstruction : how Lincoln's new birth of freedom remade the world / Don H. Doyle.
| Author/creator | Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024] |
| Description | xxi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | How Lincoln's new birth of freedom remade the world |
| Series | America in the world America in the world. ^A1143621 |
| Contents | Reconstruction and world democracy -- Tributes of the nations -- Retribution -- The Mexican lesson -- Russia exits -- Home rule for Canada -- Avanza Lincoln -- Europe's democratic reveille -- British democracy -- Spain's democratic moment -- The last monarch of France -- The fall of Rome -- Coda : The undoing. |
| Abstract | "John Wilkes Booth fired his fatal shot on the evening of April 14, 1865, and as the news reached nearly every corner of the globe, President Abraham Lincoln lay dying. Pervasive sympathy for America-and the martyred Lincoln-provoked restless agitation for democratic reform on both sides of the Atlantic. While most readers are familiar with Reconstruction as a deeply contested domestic struggle, Viva Lincoln: The Legacy of the Civil War and the New Birth of Freedom Abroad by historian Don H. Doyle explains how the Union victory helped drive European imperialism from the Americas, bring slavery to an end in Latin America, and spark a wave of democratic reforms in Europe. The 1860s proved to be a crucial decade in the history of democracy. While Reconstruction reforms were implemented to establish the American South on firm republican principles; internationally, a contagious flurry of democratic reforms and revolutions in Britain, Spain, France, and Italy made democracy the wave of the future. However, by the end of the nineteenth century, Doyle argues, the United States had forsaken the main achievements of Reconstruction as new theorists and politicians reconciled democratic principles and white supremacy in the new Jim Crow era. The United States, once a model of democratic reform, became a model for mass segregation, racialized disenfranchisement, and immigration restriction. Grounded in extensive diplomatic correspondence, US and foreign legislative debates, international newspapers, and hundreds of speeches, memoirs, biographies, contemporary books, and pamphlets, Viva Lincoln will be the first general-interest global history of Reconstruction from Lincoln's assassination to Jim Crow"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946- Age of Reconstruction Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024] 9780691256115 |
| LCCN | 2023036187 |
| ISBN | 9780691256092 |
| ISBN | 0691256098 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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