Greenback Era

Greenback Era
Author: Irwin Unger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400877660

The Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years through a socio-economic study of American financial conflict during the years 1865 to 1879. Originally published in 1964. 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.

The Greenback Era

The Greenback Era
Author: Irwin Unger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 467
Release: 1968
Genre: Currency question
ISBN: 9780691005584

The Description for this book, Greenback Era, will be forthcoming.

The Civil War's Last Campaign

The Civil War's Last Campaign
Author: Mark A. Lause
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Civil War's Last Campaign is a narrative history of General James B. Weaver's 1880 Presidential campaign as the Greenback-Labor party candidate. In the course of its narrative of the campaign, this study describes a complex coalition with interdependent conservative, radical and pragmatic currents essential to a mass insurgency. This account of his active campaigning offers a new look at America's society, values and politics in the postwar Gilded Age.

Greenback Dollar

Greenback Dollar
Author: William J. Bush
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0810881926

How big an act was the Kingston Trio? Big enough that the their first 19 albums not only reached Billboard's Top 100, but 14 of them entered the top 10, with five albums alone hitting the no. 1 spot At the height of their popularity, the Kingston Trio was arguably the most popular vocal group in the world, having single-handedly ushered in the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s. Their meteoric rise quite literally paved the way for Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul & Mary; and the many acts that followed in their wake. With the release of their version of "Tom Dooley" in fall 1958, the Kingston Trio changed American popular music forever, inspiring legions of young listeners to pick up guitars and banjoes and join together in hootenannies and sing-alongs. In Greenback Dollar: The Incredible Rise of The Kingston Trio, the first in-depth biography of America's first recording super-group, William J. Bush retraces the band members' personal and professional lives, from their rapid rise to stardom to their early retirement in 1967. Through interviews with Trio members, their families, and associates, Bush paints a detailed portrait of the Trio's formative early years and sudden popular success, their innovations in recording technology, pioneering of the college concert and intensive tour schedule, their impact on and response to the '60s protest movement, the first break-up of the Trio with Dave Guard's departure, and its re-formation with John Stewart. Lovers of folk music and students and scholars of the history of popular music and the music business, the counterculture movement, and the American folk tradition will find in Greenback Dollar a remarkably detailed view of the musical and cultural legacy that resulted in the Kingston Trio receiving a 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.

The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1904
Genre: City and town life
ISBN:

Goldbugs and Greenbacks

Goldbugs and Greenbacks
Author: Gretchen Ritter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1999-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521653923

This is a book about the late-nineteenth-century money debates in American politics, and about the role of history in American political development.

Alternative Tracks

Alternative Tracks
Author: Gerald Berk
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1997-07-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780801856365

Berk concludes that our understanding of historical political economy must take markets, technologies, and organizational forms as the contingent outcomes of such constitutional politics, rather than as premeditated contexts for state and economic development.

John A. Logan

John A. Logan
Author: James Pickett Jones
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809323890

"James P. Jones ... uses newspaper accounts, private letters, and the records of Congress to examine Major General John A. Logan's return to his political and legislative career after the Civil War. Logan emerged from the national conflict a military hero and uncommitted to any political party ... By 1884 his personality and fiercely defended principles had earned him the vice-presidential nomination on the ill-fated Republican ticket. Many writers on this period have portrayed Logan as a corrupt politician, but Jones successfully clears the Illinoisan's record"--Description of previous edition.

The Rise of the Federal Colossus

The Rise of the Federal Colossus
Author: Peter Zavodnyik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN:

This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Rise of the Federal Colossus: The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R. offers readers a front-row seat for the critical phases of a debate that is at the very center of American history, exploring such controversial issues as what powers are bestowed on the federal government, what its role should be, and how the Constitution should be interpreted. The book argues that the critical period in the growth of federal power was not the New Deal and the three decades that followed, but the preceding 72 years when important precedents establishing the national government's authority to aid citizens in distress, regulate labor, and take steps to foster economic growth were established. The author explores newspaper and magazine articles, as well as congressional debates and court opinions, to determine how Americans perceived the growing authority of their national government and examine arguments over whether novel federal activities had any constitutional basis. Responses of government to the enormous changes that took place during this period are also surveyed.

Roots of Reform

Roots of Reform
Author: Elizabeth Sanders
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 1999-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226734773

Offering a revision of the understanding of the rise of the American regulatory state in the late 19th century, this book argues that politically mobilised farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control.