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Ecstatic Nation电子书

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作       者:Wineapple, Brenda

出  版  社:Harper

出版时间:2013-08-01

字       数:134.2万

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For America, the mid-nineteenth century was an era of vast expectation and expansion: the country dreamed big, craved new lands, developed new technologies, and after too long a delay, finally confronted its greatest moral failure: slavery. Award-winning historian and literary critic Brenda Wineapple explores these feverish, ecstatic, conflicted years when Americans began to live within new and ever-widening borders, both spiritual and geographic; fought a devastating war over parallel ideals of freedom and justice; and transformed their country, at tragic cost, from a confederation into one nation, indivisible.Populated by idiosyncratic, unforgettable characters such as P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, George Armstrong Custer, Horace Greeley, and Jefferson Davis, Ecstatic Nation moves from the vehement debates about slavery through the devastations of the Civil War and its aftermath. It explores the terrible complexities of Reconstruction and the fledgling hope that women would share equally in a new definition of American citizenship, and it traces the lust for land and the lure of its beauty from a frenzied rush to riches to the displacement of Indians. And it looks forward toward the promise of a more perfect Union for all.A masterful synthesis of political, cultural, and intellectual history, breathtaking in sweep and scope, Ecstatic Nation is a spellbinding tale of America its glory and greed, its aspirations and humiliations in this exhilarating and momentous period.
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Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Prologue: The End of Earth

PART ONE (1848–1861)

( 1 ) Higher Laws

( 2 ) Who Ain’t a Slave?

( 3 ) One Aggresses

( 4 ) Democracy

( 5 ) Sovereignty

( 6 ) Revolutions Never Go Backward

( 7 ) The Impending Crisis

( 8 ) A Clank of Metal

PART TWO (1861–1865)

( 9 ) On to Richmond

( 10 ) Battle Cry of Freedom

( 11 ) This Thing Now Never Seems to Stop

( 12 ) The Last Full Measure of Devotion

( 13 ) Fairly Won

( 14 ) Armed Liberty

( 15 ) And This Is Richmond

( 16 ) The Simple, Fierce Deed

PART THREE (1865–1876)

( 17 ) But Half Accomplished

( 18 ) Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum

( 19 ) Power

( 20 ) Deep Water

( 21 ) Running from the Past

( 22 ) Westward the Course of Empire

( 23 ) With the Ten Commandments in One Hand

( 24 ) Conciliation; or, the Living

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Also by Brenda Wineapple

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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