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. The New American Nation Series EDITED BY HENRY STEELE COMMAGER AND RICHARD B. MORRIS Editors' Introduction P ROBABLY no other chapter of American history.
... and produced what is a scholarly convincing reconstruction of what is indubitably the most controversial chapter in our history. HENRY STEELE COMMAGER RICHARD B. MORRIS Preface R EVISING interpretations of the past is intrinsic to.
... Henry Wilson observed in 1867, “the loyal States have accumulated more capital, have added more to their wealth, than during any previous seven years in the history of the country.” While all branches of industry prospered, those most ...
... Henry Highland Garnet reaffirmed his belief in “Negro nationality,” but his was a lonely voice, drowned in a sea of support for “the fundamental principles of this Government” and “acknowledged American ideas.” Written by Douglass, the ...
... Henry Winter Davis, who echoed the free labor critique of slavery, promising that abolition would create a dynamic and prosperous society, freed from “the domination of ... property over people, of aristocratic privilege over republican ...
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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 | |