{"product_id":"from-appomattox-to-montmartre-americans-the-paris-commune-9780674323483","title":"From Appomattox to Montmartre  Americans  the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American Civil War and the Paris Commune of 1871, Philip Katz argues, were part of the broader sweep of transatlantic development in the mid-nineteenth centuryan age of democratic civil wars. Katz shows how American political culture in the period that followed the Paris Commune was shaped by that event.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatz's book is highly interesting for many reasons. For one, it says quite a lot that is wholly new about both French and American political history. The stories of Empress Eugénie's dentist, Ambassador Washburne's memoirs, and Cluseret's stay in America are well known, but before I read this book, I did not realize how extensive and sustained was the involvement of Americans in the Paris Commune. I was intrigued also by Professor Katz's presentation of American reactions to French events: because the Commune was both an anti-centralist statement and a revolutionary movement, it elicited dramatically contradictory responses; and it is startling to learn that some ex-Confederates had positive things to say about a social movement whose libertarian relevance to the cause of their worst enemies was also obvious. This is an informative book, well and clearly written. -- Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eKatz, who has done a careful and extremely detailed study of the Americanization of the meanings of the Commune, is to be applauded for his originality; analyzing the interpolation of overseas events into American politics is a relatively unexplored and worthwhile avenue…Katz shows how complex events are sorted out over time, how verbal brickbats are constructed, and how Americans are eternally reluctant to see class war as internal to their own exceptionalist history. -- Michael Fellman * Civil War History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Appomattox To Montmartre\u003c\/i\u003e is well worth reading. It takes a significant step towards de-exceptionalizing U. S. history, both by situating it in an international context and by addressing just how exceptional nineteenth-century Americans (especially bourgeois Americans) considered themselves. -- Kristin Hoganson * Left History *\u003cbr\u003eKatz's idea-that American interpretations of the Commune reflected confusion about the nation's postwar national role-is exciting…\u003ci\u003eFrom Appomattox to Montmartre\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome resurrection of the nineteenth- century American obsession with the Paris Commune. -- Heather Cox Richardson * The Journal Of American History *\u003cbr\u003eWhat Katz has done is quite remarkable...His study surpasses previous work by the breadth and depth of his research...He displays considerable analytical powers in evaluating his materials, demonstrating how diverse groups responded to what he terms 'an ideological jumble.' ...The most substantial study yet written on the Paris Commune and the United States...Katz has made a contribution to social, cultural, and intellectual history. -- James A. Rawley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - an epoch of stirring events; the two civil wars of General Cluseret; \"la colonie Americaine\"; first impressions; ripples across the Atlantic; civil wars by analogy - party, section and the Paris Commune; the view from the 1870s; apocalypse where? apocalypse when?; 1877 - the rise of the American commune?; conclusion - that once dreaded institution; appendix - chronology of the Paris Commune; appendix - two American poems about the Paris Commune; appendix - novels and plays about the Paris Commune.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403584872791,"sku":"9780674323483","price":60.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674323483.jpg?v=1730483904","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-appomattox-to-montmartre-americans-the-paris-commune-9780674323483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}