This essay sketches out a history of the significance of Reconstruction internationally. Noting t... more This essay sketches out a history of the significance of Reconstruction internationally. Noting that the historiography of Reconstruction, unlike the historiography of the Civil War, has resisted the turn to transnational approaches, the essay examines foreign relations and the projection of United States power as a starting point for understanding the nation in its international context during the period. Arguing that US foreign policy after 1865 was driven by two chief principles—to promote republican (as opposed to monarchical/imperial) government in the Americas, and to bring a definitive end to slavery—Doyle shows how the US maneuvered to dislodge all of the European empires from the Western hemisphere and how Reconstruction helped shape the Spanish Caribbean, Mexico, and Brazil.
... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the sout... more ... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the southern mind, though doubtless Poteat's championing of ... of a classy journalist's desire to dazzle the reader with attention-grabbing words and phrases: Tartuffe, gyneolatry, fair Athena, the lily ...
This essay sketches out a history of the significance of Reconstruction internationally. Noting t... more This essay sketches out a history of the significance of Reconstruction internationally. Noting that the historiography of Reconstruction, unlike the historiography of the Civil War, has resisted the turn to transnational approaches, the essay examines foreign relations and the projection of United States power as a starting point for understanding the nation in its international context during the period. Arguing that US foreign policy after 1865 was driven by two chief principles—to promote republican (as opposed to monarchical/imperial) government in the Americas, and to bring a definitive end to slavery—Doyle shows how the US maneuvered to dislodge all of the European empires from the Western hemisphere and how Reconstruction helped shape the Spanish Caribbean, Mexico, and Brazil.
... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the sout... more ... no three by five notecards, to censor religion for obstructing new ideas and closing the southern mind, though doubtless Poteat's championing of ... of a classy journalist's desire to dazzle the reader with attention-grabbing words and phrases: Tartuffe, gyneolatry, fair Athena, the lily ...
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