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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... Society Publications F1HQ—Florida Historical Quarterly FSSP—Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland (with document identification number) GaHQ—Georgia Historical Quarterly GDAH—Georgia Department of Archives and ...
... Society JMH—Journal of Mississippi History JNH—Journal of Negro History JSH—Journal of Southern History JSocH—Journal of Social History LaH—Louisiana History LaHQ—Louisiana Historical Quarterly LC—Library of Congress LML—Lawson McGhee ...
... Society SHSW—State Historical Society of Wisconsin SS—Southern Studies SWHQ—Southwestern Historical Quarterly THQ—Tennessee Historical Quarterly TSLA—Tennessee State Library and Archives UGa—University of Georgia UNC—Southern Historical ...
... society in which blacks were disenfranchised and subjected to discrimination in every aspect of their lives, Reconstruction revisionism bore the mark of the modern civil rights movement. In the 1960s the revisionist wave broke over the ...
... society, blacks were active agents in the making of Reconstruction. During the Civil War, their actions helped force the nation down the road to emancipation, and in the aftermath of that conflict, their quest for individual and ...
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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 | |