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CHICAGO AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTH - John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov. Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 328 pp. $55 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03683-5. - Sam Mitrani. The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850–1894. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 272 pp. $50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03806-8.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2014
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- The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 104 - 107
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- Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2015
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1 This phase of research on the North's Reconstruction is summed up in Mohr, James C., ed., Radical Republicans in the North: State Politics during Reconstruction (Baltimore, 1976)Google Scholar; and Foner, Eric, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York, 1988)Google Scholar, ch. 10. Montgomery, David, Beyond Equality: Labor and the the Radical Republicans, 1862–1872 (New York, 1967)Google Scholar. On Montgomery's talent for interweaving local, national, and transnational contexts, see Stromquist, Shelton, “David Montgomery: A Labor Historian's Legacies,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 13 (Apr. 2014): 256–276CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
2 For example, Cohen, Nancy, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914 (Chapel Hill, 2002)Google Scholar; and Richardson, Heather Cox, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (New Haven, 2007)Google Scholar. Similar to the books under review in its effort to connect local political strife to national issues during Reconstruction: Quigley, David, Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (New York, 2004)Google Scholar.
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