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Reforging the white republic : race, religion, and American nationalism, 1865-1898 / Edward J. Blum ; updated edition with a new foreword by John Stauffer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Conflicting worldsPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2015Edition: Louisiana paperback editionDescription: xxxii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807160411 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  • 0807160415 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.8 23
LOC classification:
  • E661 .B68 2015
Contents:
Preface to the 2015 edition -- Race, religion, and the fracturing of the white republic -- The last and greatest battle of freedom : race and the American nation after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln -- On the verge of heaven : religious missions, interracial contact, and the radicalism of radical Reconstruction -- The apostles of forgiveness : religion and national reunion in Northern society, popular culture, and national politics, 1865-1875 -- Inventor of Leganes Miraculous : national reconciliation and racial segregation during America's third Great Awakening -- The white flag waves : spiritual reunion and genocidal visions during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 -- No North, no South, no sectionalism in politics, no sex in citizenship : race, nationalism, and gender politics in the rise of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- To the person sitting in darkness : global missions, religious belief and the making of the imperial white republic -- Epilogue: Dreaming of the white republic, defending the souls of Black folk.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection E661 .B68 2015 Available 31794003198489
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) E661 .B68 2015 Available 31826003534170

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-344) and index.

Preface to the 2015 edition -- Race, religion, and the fracturing of the white republic -- The last and greatest battle of freedom : race and the American nation after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln -- On the verge of heaven : religious missions, interracial contact, and the radicalism of radical Reconstruction -- The apostles of forgiveness : religion and national reunion in Northern society, popular culture, and national politics, 1865-1875 -- Inventor of Leganes Miraculous : national reconciliation and racial segregation during America's third Great Awakening -- The white flag waves : spiritual reunion and genocidal visions during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 -- No North, no South, no sectionalism in politics, no sex in citizenship : race, nationalism, and gender politics in the rise of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- To the person sitting in darkness : global missions, religious belief and the making of the imperial white republic -- Epilogue: Dreaming of the white republic, defending the souls of Black folk.

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