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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... Georgia Historical Quarterly GDAH—Georgia Department of Archives and History HL—Huntington Library HSPa—Historical Society of Pennsylvania HU—Houghton Library, Harvard University IndMH—Indiana Magazine of History JAH—Journal of American ...
... Georgia and added a new dimension to the already perplexing land question. Having captured Atlanta in September 1864, Sherman set out two months later on his March to the Sea. To Georgia's slaves the arrival of this avenging host seemed ...
... Georgia, where they established a selfgoverning community with Houston as the “black governor.” By June, in the region that had spawned one of the wealthiest segments of the planter class, some 40,000 freedmen had been settled on ...
... Georgia farm saying “she couldn't live anywhere where there was no more negroes than here.” The postwar “exodus” also reflected the massive displacement of the black population that had occurred during the Civil War. Thousands of slaves ...
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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 | |