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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... economic wellsprings of Republican policy reinforced the prevailing disdain for Reconstruction. Despite their ... economic ends, further undermined the Radicals' reputation by portraying them as agents of Northern capitalism, who ...
... economic resources. His book closed with an indictment of a profession whose writings had ignored the testimony of the principal actor in the drama of Reconstruction—the emancipated slave—and sacrificed scholarly objectivity on the ...
... economic aspects of the period. In a sense, this book aims to combine the Dunning School's aspiration to a broad interpretive framework with the findings and concerns of recent scholarship—to provide, that is, a coherent, comprehensive ...
... economic independence, race and class were inextricably linked. As a Washington newspaper noted in 1868, “It is impossible to separate the question of color from the question of labor, for the reason that the majority of the laborers ...
... economic order gave rise to a distinctive subculture that celebrated mutuality, egalitarianism (for whites), and proud independence.21 Within the South, state borders did not coincide with lines of economic specialization. The ...
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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 | |