Reconstruction Updated Edition
eBook - ePub

Reconstruction Updated Edition

America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

  1. 752 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reconstruction Updated Edition

America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

About this book

From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.

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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Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations Used in Footnotes
  4. Editors’ Introduction
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction to the 2014 Anniversary Edition
  7. Chapter 1: The World the War Made
  8. Chapter 2: Rehearsals for Reconstruction
  9. Chapter 3: The Meaning of Freedom
  10. Chapter 4: Ambiguities of Free Labor
  11. Chapter 5: The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction
  12. Chapter 6: The Making of Radical Reconstruction
  13. Chapter 7: Blueprints for a Republican South
  14. Chapter 8: Reconstruction: Political and Economic
  15. Chapter 9: The Challenge of Enforcement
  16. Chapter 10: The Reconstruction of the North
  17. Chapter 11: The Politics of Depression
  18. Chapter 12: Redemption and After
  19. Picture Section
  20. Epilogue
  21. Selected Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Author
  25. Also by Eric Foner
  26. Praise for Reconstruction
  27. Copyright
  28. About the Publisher
  29. Notes