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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... wrote E. Merton Coulter in the last fullscale history of Reconstruction written entirely within the Dunning tradition, was a “diabolical” development, “to be remembered, shuddered at, and execrated.” Yet while these works abounded in ...
... wrote, “explains the attitude of most recent writers toward Reconstruction; they cannot conceive of Negroes as men.” In many ways, Black Reconstruction anticipated the findings of modern scholarship. At the time, however, it was largely ...
... wrote a black sergeant from Virginia in March 1865. “Surely this is a mighty and progressive age in which we live.”16 From Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army to the militias raised during the American Revolution to guerrilla armies of our ...
... wrote in 1864, “are never again to see the republic in which we were born.”52 Yet the world that spawned the free labor ideology remained close enough in time, and its assumptions authentic enough in the experience of men like Lincoln ...
... wrote Governor Hahn concerning the coming convention: “I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people not be let in—as for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought ...
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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 | |