Emancipation and Reconstruction

Name: Emancipation and Reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780882959955

ISBN-10: 0882959956

ISBN-13: 9780882959955

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Michael Perman

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An adept distillation of the scholarship that has been produced since the 1950s -- thoughtfully reorganised and updated to include a consideration of new works that have appeared since 1987 this new edition of Michael Perman's vastly successful book examines the ways in which historians have interpreted what was perhaps the largest program of domestic reform undertaken in the history of the United States. In addition to accessing the impact of what might best be described as a maturation of the Revisionist history of Emancipation and Reconstruction, Perman introduces previously neglected areas of interest that have assumed new significance, such as the nature of the southern labour system…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 4.80" wide x 7.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments, Second Edition


Acknowledgments, First Edition


Introduction: Emancipation and Reconstruction in History



Shaping Emancipation, 1861-1870


From Slave Labor to Free Labor


The Response to Emancipation


The Impact of Emancipation



Planning Reconstruction, 1865-1868


Presidential Reconstruction


Congressional Reconstruction



Implementing Reconstruction, 1868-1873


The Republican Party in the South


The Achievement of Southern Reconstruction



Ending Reconstruction, 1874-1879


Collapse in the South


Neglect in the North


Conclusion: The Dilemma of Reconstruction


Bibliographical Essay


Index