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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... voters hostile to the perfectionist reform tradition, with its impulse toward cultural homogeneity.55 To unite these groups, the Democracy built upon an ideological appeal developed in the 1850s, which identified the Republican party as ...
... voters would control the destiny of entire states. Excluding blacks and the disloyal majority of Southern whites altogether, the plan could hardly promise stable government for a postwar South. But in strictly military terms, for 10 ...
... voters, who, in any case, represented only a tiny fraction of the population, Republicans, early in 1865, enacted proscriptive legislation that enabled them to retain power for the next five years. Voters were required to take oaths ...
... voters by army provost marshals, Unionists committed to immediate and uncompensated emancipation swept the Maryland elections of 1863 and called a constitutional convention to reconstruct the state. Abolition headed the agenda, but the ...
... voters, Radical Thomas C. Fletcher was elected governor and a convention called to devise a plan of emancipation.14 The delegates who gathered in January 1865 represented a cross section of the diverse coalition of outsiders now ...
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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 | |