{"product_id":"gold-and-freedom-the-political-economy-of-reconstruction-hardcover","title":"Gold and Freedom: The Political Economy of Reconstruction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicolas Barreyre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArthur Goldhammer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Reconstruction was a battle for the legacy of the Civil War that would determine the political fate not only of the South but of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGold and Freedom, \u003c\/i\u003e Nicolas Barreyre recovers the story of how economic issues became central to American politics after the war. The idea that a financial debate was as important for Reconstruction as emancipation may seem remarkable, but the war created economic issues that all Americans, not just southerners, had to grapple with, including a huge debt, an inconvertible paper currency, high taxation, and tariffs. Alongside the key issues of race and citizenship, the struggle with the new economic model and the type of society it created pervaded the entire country. Both were legacies of war. Both were fought over by the same citizens in a newly reunited nation. It was thus impossible for such closely related debates to proceed independently.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA truly groundbreaking work, \u003ci\u003eGold and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e shows how much the fate of Reconstruction--and the political world it ultimately created--owed to northern sectional divisions, revealing important links between race and economy, as well as region and nation, not previously recognized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicolas Barreyre, Associate Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eHistorians across Borders: Writing American History in a Global Age.\u003c\/i\u003e Arthur Goldhammer, affiliated with the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, is translator of \u003ci\u003eAlexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America\u003c\/i\u003e (Virginia), among numerous other works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130533351559,"sku":"9780813937496","price":81.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7593b34dc061ccf0363eb72536e7505a.webp?v=1732611679","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/gold-and-freedom-the-political-economy-of-reconstruction-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}