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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... Republican party after the Civil War and remain strongholds well into the twentieth century. Their loyalty first to the Union and then to Republicanism did not, however, imply abolitionist sentiment during the war (although they were ...
... Republican party policy, and a starting point for discussions of the postwar South. For decades, the antislavery movement had hammered home the free labor indictment of slavery: Freedom meant prosperity and progress; bondage produced ...
... Republican party as an agent of economic privilege and political centralization, and a threat to individual liberty and the tradition of limited government. The Lincoln administration's economic policies, Democrats charged, enriched ...
... Republican party that appeared as its handmaiden, and violent hostility to emancipation, abolitionists, and blacks. Having risen to dominance through command of the Southern cotton trade and ties to the West via the Erie Canal, New York ...
... Republican party over the course of wartime Reconstruction and the implications of emancipation. The. Politics. of ... party faith, political debate increasingly centered upon the freedmen's postwar status. Many Republicans were ...
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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 | |