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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 13
... land reform.7 Even when revisionism was at its height, however, its more optimistic findings were challenged. Shocked by the resistance to racial progress in the 1960s and the deepseated economic problems the Second Reconstruction ...
... land and worked it with their own labor, without resort to slaves or wageworkers. Most families owned a few head of cattle, sheep, and hogs, which, under the South's openrange system, roamed freely on both public and private land and ...
... lands to settlers on the public domain, and the Land Grant College Act assisted the states in establishing “agricultural and mechanical colleges.” And to further consolidate the Union, Congress lavished enormous grants of public land ...
... Land. and. Labor. During. the. Civil. War. Of the many questions raised by emancipation, none was more crucial to the future place of both blacks and whites in Southern society than how the region's economy would henceforth be organized ...
... land came into federal hands from seizures for nonpayment of taxes (in which case it could be sold at auction), or as abandoned property (which the Treasury Department would then administer). How to dispose of this land, coupled with ...
Contenido
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 | |