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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America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Eric Foner. Abbreviations Used in Footnotes AC—Annual Cyclopedia AgH—Agricultural History AHR—American Historical Review AI HQ—Alabama Historical Quarterly AMA—American Missionary Association ...
America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Eric Foner. The New American Nation Series EDITED BY HENRY STEELE COMMAGER AND RICHARD B. MORRIS Editors' Introduction P ROBABLY no other chapter of American history.
... America to world power— or certainly to Pacific power? Or might it all be interpreted in philosophical terms—the Age of Darwin and Spencer, of Lester Ward and William James, who contributed so much to reconstructing American thought ...
America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Eric Foner. Preface. R. EVISING interpretations of the past is intrinsic to the study of history. But no part of the American experience has, in the last twentyfive years, seen a broadly accepted ...
... American history. My opening is more unusual, for the book begins not in 1865 (or, as others would insist, in 1861), but with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. I do this to emphasize the Proclamation's importance in uniting two ...
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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 | |