Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-331) and index.
Contents
Regeneration of a nation -- Republicanism contested : the election of 1872 -- The Republican project under siege : the Grant administration and the trial of enforcement -- The southern question revived : the campaign of 1876 -- Rescuing the republic : the electoral crisis of 1876-1877 -- Conciliation is not mutual : republicanism and the southern policy of Rutherford B. Hayes -- Confrontation with a solid south : new directions under Garfield and Arthur -- The fundamental question in a republic : republicanism, economics, and electoral stalemate in the 1880s -- Republicanism defeated : the Lodge Federal Elections Bill -- Surrender of the new republic : Reconstruction undone and the nationalism of reconciliation.
