Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877Harper Collins, 2011 M12 13 - 736 páginas From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America, with a new introduction from the author. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today. |
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... Amendment that still functions as an instrument of revolution? Was its central theme social and moral—the end of slavery, or did the realities of slavery persist for another half century or more? Was its significance fundamentally in ...
... Amendment, which, to the last, Kentucky's legislature opposed.3 The Union party of Kentucky, remarked Gen. John M. Palmer, the federal military commander in the state, “is distinguished by its timidity.” Slavery was more deeply ...
... amendment to abolish slavery that won the nearly unanimous approval of the 25,000 white Tennesseans permitted to vote in a February 1865 referendum. In March, Johnson assumed the Vice Presidency, and William G. Brownlow was elected the ...
... Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the Union, but it had failed to receive the required twothirds majority in the House. On January 31, 1865, by a margin of 119 to 56, the Amendment won House approval, and was forwarded to the ...
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Ambiguities of Free Labor | |
The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction | |
The Making of Radical Reconstruction | |
Blueprints for a Republican South | |
The Challenge of Enforcement | |
The Reconstruction of the North | |
The Politics of Depression | |
Redemption and After | |
Epilogue | |
Index | |
Acknowledgments | |
Political and Economic | |