{"product_id":"the-republic-for-which-it-stands-the-united-states-during-reconstruction-and-the-gilded-age-1865-1896-9780190053765","title":"The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford History of the United States \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eis the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Republic for Which It Stands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethe seedbed of modern America.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an\u003cbr\u003eunimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers\u003cbr\u003ehad become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The dangerous classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that\u003cbr\u003egave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative\u003cbr\u003epossibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12412677\"\u003eRichard White\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 2.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190053765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190053763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036050\"\u003eUnited States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036040\"\u003eUnited States | 19th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS029000\"\u003eNorth American\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard White\u003c\/strong\u003e is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including \u003cem\u003eRailroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e1650-1815\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eIt's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Mellon Distinguished Scholar Award, among other awards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699309842669,"sku":"9780190053765","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_595324f3-78f8-47be-8fc6-75da28e1c529.jpg?v=1649915418","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-republic-for-which-it-stands-the-united-states-during-reconstruction-and-the-gilded-age-1865-1896-9780190053765","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}