Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States. |
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Motivated by an irrational hatred of Southern “rebels” and the desire to
consolidate their party's national ascendancy, the Radicals in 1867 swept aside
the Southern governments Johnson had established and fastened black suffrage
upon the ...
their actions helped force the nation down the road to emancipation, and in the
aftermath of that conflict, their quest for individual and community autonomy did
much to establish Reconstruction's political and economic agenda. Although ...
And in western and central North Carolina, whose white inhabitants also
supported the Confederacy at the outset, Unionists organized the Heroes of
America, numbering perhaps 10,000 men, who established an “underground
railroad” to ...
In many industries, the “balance of financial power . . . shifted from the merchant's
counting house to the factory office,” as the profit boom enabled manufacturers to
liquidate longstanding debts, thereby establishing their independence of ...
To help compensate for the drain of men into the army, a federal bureau was
established to encourage immigration under labor contracts. To promote
agricultural development, the Homestead Act offered free lands to settlers on the
public ...
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Crítica de los usuarios - busterrll - LibraryThingGood book but hard reading Wish I had a better knowledge of reconstruction politics. Spot read after a bit, but full of information. Will save and try to reread after reading more on Pres.Johnson. Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - DarthDeverell - LibraryThingEric Foner begins with an assessment of the historiography up to 1988. In the first decade of the 1900s, William Dunning and John W. Burgess articulated a history of Reconstruction that condemned ... Leer comentario completo
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The Meaning of Freedom | 77 |
Ambiguities of Free Labor | 124 |
The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction | 176 |
The Making of Radical Reconstruction | 228 |
Blueprints for a Republican South | 281 |
Reconstruction Political and Economic | 346 |
The Challenge of Enforcement | 412 |
The Reconstruction of the North | 460 |
The Politics of Depression | 512 |
Redemption and After | 564 |
The River Has Its Bend | 602 |
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