Reconstruction America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Name: Reconstruction America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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ISBN: 9780060158514

ISBN-10: 0060158514

ISBN-13: 9780060158514

Edition: 1988

Authors: Eric Foner

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This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 720
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Eric Foner is a professor of American history at Columbia University.

Abbreviations Used in Footnotes	p. xiii
Editors' Introduction	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
The World the War Made	p. 1
The Coming of Emancipation	p. 1
The Inner Civil War	p. 11
The North's Transformation	p. 18
Rehearsals for Reconstruction	p. 35
Dilemmas of Wartime Reconstruction	p. 35
Land and Labor During the Civil War	p. 50
The Politics of Emancipation and the End of the War	p. 60
The Meaning of Freedom	p. 77
From Slavery to Freedom	p. 78
Building the Black Community	p. 88
The Economics of Freedom	p. 102
Origins of Black Politics	p. 110
Violence and Everyday Life	p. 119
Ambiguities of Free Labor	p. 124
Masters Without Slaves	p. 128
The "Misrepresented Bureau"	p. 142
The Freedmen's Bureau, Land, and Labor	p. 153
Beginnings of Economic Reconstruction	p. 170
The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction	p. 176
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction	p. 176
Launching the South's New Governments	p. 185
The Anatomy of Presidential Reconstruction	p. 198
The North's Response	p. 216
The Making of Radical Reconstruction	p. 228
The Radical Republicans	p. 228
Origins of Civil Rights	p. 239
The Fourteenth Amendment	p. 251
The Campaign of 1866	p. 261
The Coming of Black Suffrage	p. 271
Blueprints for a Republican South	p. 281
The Political Mobilization of the Black Community	p. 281
The Republican Coalition	p. 291
The North and Radical Reconstruction	p. 307
The Constitutional Conventions	p. 316
Impeachment and the Election of Grant	p. 333
Reconstruction: Political and Economic	p. 346
Party and Government in the Reconstruction South	p. 346
Southern Republicans in Power	p. 364
The Gospel of Prosperity	p. 379
Patterns of Economic Change	p. 392
The Challenge of Enforcement	p. 412
The New Departure and the First Redemption	p. 412
The Ku Klux Klan	p. 425
"Power from Without"	p. 444
The Reconstruction of the North	p. 460
The North and the Age of Capital	p. 461
The Transformation of Politics	p. 469
The Rise of Liberalism	p. 488
The Election of 1872	p. 499
The Politics of Depression	p. 512
The Depression and Its Consequences	p. 512
Retreat from Reconstruction	p. 524
The Waning of Southern Republicanism	p. 535
The Crisis of 1875	p. 553
Redemption and After	p. 564
The Centennial Election	p. 564
The Electoral Crisis and the End of Reconstruction	p. 575
The Redeemers' New South	p. 587
Epilogue: "The River Has Its Bend"	p. 602
Acknowledgments	p. 613
Selected Bibliography	p. 615
Index	p. 643
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