The age of Reconstruction : how Lincoln's new birth of freedom remade the world

The age of Reconstruction : how Lincoln's new birth of freedom remade the world /

"John Wilkes Booth fired his fatal shot on the evening of April 14, 1865, and as the news reached nearly every corner of the globe, President Abraham Lincoln lay dying. Pervasive sympathy for America-and the martyred Lincoln-provoked restless agitation for democratic reform on both sides of the...

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Main Author: Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Series:America in the world.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Influence.
Democratization > Europe > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Public opinion.
Europe > Politics and government > 1848-1871.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Foreign public opinion.
United States > Foreign relations > Europe.
Europe > Foreign relations > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Reconstruction and world democracy
  • Tributes of the nations
  • Retribution
  • The Mexican lesson
  • Russia exits
  • Home rule for Canada
  • Avanza Lincoln
  • Europe's democratic reveille
  • British democracy
  • Spain's democratic moment
  • The last monarch of France
  • The fall of Rome
  • Coda : The undoing.

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