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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... declared Sen. John Sherman in defending the new currency and banking systems, “ought to be to make everything national as far as possible; to nationalize our country so that we shall love our country.” Within Congress, Sherman's broad ...
... declared the Missouri Democrat's Radical editor, B. Gratz Brown: “This is progress, this is the Revolution.” Despite the President's effort to remain impartial, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the collapse of slavery in the state as ...
... declared for abolition in Tennessee. His conversion, however, was based less on concern for the slave than hatred of the Confederacy and of the slaveholders he believed had dragged poor whites unwillingly into rebellion. As he remarked ...
... declared the New York Times in January 1863, “there will come the further duty of making them work....” “All this,” the Times admitted, “opens a vast and most difficult subject.”30 As the war progressed, the Union army found itself in ...
... declared, “as fellow sufferers.”56 In January 1865, with Ingraham as chairman, a convention of the Equal Rights League assembled in New Orleans, its resolutions demanding black suffrage and equal access to the city's streetcars, its ...
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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 | |