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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... schools of William Dunning, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter Fleming, and Allan Nevins. It is to this distinguished lineage of Reconstruction scholars that Professor Foner belongs, and in nothing is he more distinguished than in his independence ...
... School, of “negro incapacity.” The childlike blacks, these scholars insisted, were unprepared for freedom and incapable of properly exercising the political rights Northerners had thrust upon them. The fact that blacks took part in ...
... School had to fall. Indeed, only a few years after the publication of Black Reconstruction, Howard K. Beale, who had earlier helped to discredit Radical Republicans' motives, called for a sweeping reassessment of Southern Reconstruction ...
... School interpretation, historians have yet to produce a coherent account of Reconstruction to take its place. In ... School's aspiration to a broad interpretive framework with the findings and concerns of recent scholarship—to provide ...
... schools, and public accommodations, confined by and large to menial occupations, living in the poorest, unhealthiest quarters of cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, reminded daily of the racial prejudice that seemed as ...
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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 | |