The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World

How Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements globally



In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans r...