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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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 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
...
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 ...
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, ...
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
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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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