Princeton Legacy Library

Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877

Mark Wahlgren Summers

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781400857128
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Rail Transportation
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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 and a biracial Republican majority through railroad aid.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1. The Gospel of Prosperity
• Part 2. A Covenant of Public Works: Legislating for the Railroads
• Part 3. "The Glory is Departed from Israel": Using the Railroads
• Part 4. Balm in Gilead? Financing Railroads
• Part 5. There is No Salvation: The Fall of the Railroads
• Coda. "And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?"
• Appendix. Could the Democrats Have Done Better?
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index