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5 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Heather Cox Richardson wrote an interesting book where she argued that part of the failure of reconstruction was the inability for some republicans, even radicals (many of which were laissez-faire libs) who steadfastly championed "free labor" ideology as cure to all the
problems of backwards south, to understand contradictions inherent in its application to black ex-slaves . The actual real world economic conditions of black sharecroppers were radically out of sync with Repub "free labor" "laissez faire" ideology.
When blacks seem to sour on or even rebel against these social/economic arrangements that just seem like a continuation of slavery in some sense, traditional "free labor" repubs lose interest in their cause (they are more concerned with the universal application of
"free labor " ideology,more than the actual day to day conditions of freedmen). I actually highlight that book in the original thread I did.

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5 May
Until a few days ago, I thought this book by Christopher Othen was the only academic work on international volunteers for nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War. It turns out there is at least one other one, as I found this book by Judith Keene entitled "Fighting for Franco". ImageImage
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I think I found patient zero or the missing link for Fonerite reconstruction historiography. James G. Blaine's memoir of his time as a Republican congressional rep for Maine and eventually a senator from 1861 to 1881. This memoir contains a large amount of political/
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Goody is less known, but this book is really important for understanding the leftist critique of "western civ" and "Eurocentrism" (I don't know if it was written before Said's book, but if it was, then Said ripped alot of his framing from Goody, because its identical Image
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Purchased this last night, have been looking for something like this for quite awhile. There was a French historian named de Rougemont that wrote a book like this with the same name. Tony Judt also has something similar and there other essays on the subject (and other books).
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This is a great thread of, to my knowledge, one of the better single volume US economic histories. This issue of the development of "Sunbelt" and south's post-war economic and political modernization is an important body of literature that many probably aren't aware of.
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was by awarding disproportionate number of military contracts to southern states which spurred development of heavier industry as well as growth of white-collar jobs related to science, engineering, technology,etc.
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