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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... railroad pierced the mountains; the planters and farmers of northern Alabama traded with Nashville, Louisville, and Cincinnati, while the black belt lay within the economic orbit of Mobile and New Orleans.22 Southern politics had long ...
... railroad” to enable Unionists to escape to federal lines. Alexander H. Jones, a Hendersonville newspaper editor and leader of the Heroes of America, secretly printed an address that expressed pointedly the class resentment rising to the ...
... Railroads thrived on carrying troops and supplies, and profited from the closing of the Mississippi River. The war's first year ... railroad and slaughterhouse, experienced unprecedented growth in population, construction, banking, and ...
... railroad management and finance, and John D. Rockefeller, in 1860 a twentyoneyearold commission merchant, also profited handsomely from government contracts and began uniting refineries into a petroleum empire.36 Accelerating the ...
... railroad freight rates, and state and federal aid to private corporations, that would provide the staples of agrarian protest in years to come. And the party benefited from widespread resentment over the use of troops to suppress ...
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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 | |