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Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877
By (Author) Mark Wahlgren Summers
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
385.1
Hardback
378
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
851g
This book describes the southern Republicans' post- Civil War railroad aid program--the central element of the Gospel of Prosperity" designed to reestablish a vigorous economy in the devastated South. Conceding that race and Unionism were basic issues, Mark W. Summers explores a neglected facet of the postwar era: the attempt to build a new South a