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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Página xv
The most striking feature of that independence is his insistence that the Negro
was the central figure and the most effective in Reconstruction: in this he was, to
be sure, anticipated by the great Negro leader, Du Bois. To the support of his
thesis ...
The most striking feature of that independence is his insistence that the Negro
was the central figure and the most effective in Reconstruction: in this he was, to
be sure, anticipated by the great Negro leader, Du Bois. To the support of his
thesis ...
Página xviii
The childlike blacks, these scholars insisted, were unprepared for freedom and
incapable of properly exercising the political rights Northerners had thrust upon
them. The fact that blacks took part in government, wrote E. Merton Coulter in the
...
The childlike blacks, these scholars insisted, were unprepared for freedom and
incapable of properly exercising the political rights Northerners had thrust upon
them. The fact that blacks took part in government, wrote E. Merton Coulter in the
...
Página xix
Historians, he insisted, must rethink the prevailing idea that the South owed “a
debt of gratitude” to the restorers of white supremacy; even more profoundly, they
must free themselves from the conviction that “their race must bar Negroes from ...
Historians, he insisted, must rethink the prevailing idea that the South owed “a
debt of gratitude” to the restorers of white supremacy; even more profoundly, they
must free themselves from the conviction that “their race must bar Negroes from ...
Página xx
Radical Republicans and Southern freedmen were now the heroes, white
supremacist Redeemers the villains, and Reconstruction was a time of
extraordinary social and political progress for blacks. If the era was “tragic,”
revisionists insisted, ...
Radical Republicans and Southern freedmen were now the heroes, white
supremacist Redeemers the villains, and Reconstruction was a time of
extraordinary social and political progress for blacks. If the era was “tragic,”
revisionists insisted, ...
Página 12
Southern politics had long reflected these intrastate divisions. There was
persistent debate about the apportionment of state legislatures, with yeoman
regions like western North Carolina demanding a “white basis” while planters
insisted upon ...
Southern politics had long reflected these intrastate divisions. There was
persistent debate about the apportionment of state legislatures, with yeoman
regions like western North Carolina demanding a “white basis” while planters
insisted upon ...
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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
Contenido
| xvii | |
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| 35 | |
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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Pasajes populares
Página 49 - I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks.
Página 94 - For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Página 236 - If the South is ever to be made a safe republic let her lands be cultivated by the toil of the owners or the free labor of intelligent citizens.
Página 229 - Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Página 80 - Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1985); Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a Woman?
Página 448 - Think of Patrick and Sambo and Hans and Yung Tung, who do not know the difference between a monarchy and a republic, who can not read the Declaration of Independence or Webster's spelling-book, making laws for Lucretia Mott, Ernestine L. Rose, and Anna E. Dickinson.
Página 609 - The claim that there is nothing in the color of the skin from the point of view of political ethics is a great sophism. A black skin means membership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason, has never, therefore, created any civilization of any kind.
Página 94 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Página 74 - It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers.
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Perennial Classics |
| Autor | Eric Foner |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | Harper Collins, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0060937165, 9780060937164 |
| Largo | 736 páginas |
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