Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War by Eric Foner

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Insisting that politics and ideology--two subjects eclipsed in recent years--must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Eric Foner, author of the landmark study of early Republican Party ideology, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. Foner's goal is to reintegrate the social, political, and intellectual history of the nineteenth century. At the same time he brings to bear on the study of the sectional conflict some of the insights of the new social history, especially its findings regarding the interplay of race, class, and labor discipline.

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Taken together, these essays work towards reintegrating the social, political, and intellectual history of the nineteenth century.