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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... legislation was shown to be not simply the product of a Radical cabal, but a program that enjoyed broad support both in Congress and the North at large.6 Even more startling was the revised portrait of Republican rule in the South. So ...
... legislation” was deeply resented in the upcountry, for the cost of a substitute quickly rose far beyond the means of most white families, while the “twenty Negro” provision, a response to the decline of discipline on the plantations ...
... legislation, their gains imbued with the aura of patriotism rather than appearing as mere selfishness. Whatever their effect upon individual businesses, the high tariffs, at first regarded as temporary but later formalized in a system ...
... legislation.” But it reflected as well resentment toward the emerging industrial bourgeoisie and the Republican party that appeared as its handmaiden, and violent hostility to emancipation, abolitionists, and blacks. Having risen to ...
... legislation that enabled them to retain power for the next five years. Voters were required to take oaths affirming their past and future loyalty to the Union, thus disqualifying thousands in the counties bordering on Virginia. (A ...
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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 | |