Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
By Eric Foner
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The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years that played such an important role in shaping modern America. Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery. He provides fresh insights on a host of other issues, including, The ways in which the emancipated slave’s 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; Abraham Lincoln’s attitude toward Reconstruction; The role of “carpet-baggers” and “scalawags;” and The role of violence in the period. This “smart book of enormous strengths” (Boston Globe) has become the classic work on the wrenching post–Civil War period, an era whose legacy reverberates in the United States to this day.
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Finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History
Finalist for the 1988 National Book Award
Finalist for the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the 1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
Winner of the 1989 Parkman Prize
Winner of the 1989 Bancroft Prize
A PBS Pick of Books about Reconstruction
New York Times Pick of Books to Help You Grasp How We Got to This Moment
The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years that played such an important role in shaping modern America.
Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery. He provides fresh insights on a host of other issues, including,
- The ways in which the emancipated slave’s 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;
- Abraham Lincoln’s attitude toward Reconstruction;
- The role of “carpet-baggers” and “scalawags;” and
- The role of violence in the period.
This “smart book of enormous strengths” (Boston Globe) has become the classic work on the wrenching post–Civil War period, an era whose legacy reverberates in the United States to this day.
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Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/History |
Runtime: | 30.74 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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