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Informationen zum Autor Michael Perman is Professor of History and Research Professor in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.A. at Oxford University and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written three books on the late nineteenth century South- Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-1868 (1973), The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 (1984), which won three book prizes, and Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 (2001). He is also editor of Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1998), The Coming of the American Civil War (1993), and Perspectives on the American Past (1995). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979-80 and has been appointed the John Adams Distinguished Professor in American History in the Netherlands, 2002-2003. Klappentext This highly popular 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. Zusammenfassung This highly popular 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword VII Acknowledgments, Second Edition XI Acknowledgments, First Edition XIII Introduction: Emancipation and Reconstruction in History 1 Chapter One: Shaping Emancipation, 1861-1870 6 From Slave Labor to Free Labor 7 The Response to Emancipation 12 The Impact of Emancipation 27 Chapter Two: Planning Reconstruction, 1865-1868 40 Presidential Reconstruction 40 Congressional Reconstruction 51 Chapter Three: Implementing Reconstruction, 1868-1873 73 The Republican Party in the South 73 The Achievement of Southern Reconstruction 86 Chapter Four: Ending Reconstruction, 1874-1879 103 Collapse in the South 103 Neglect in the North 118 Conclusion: The Dilemma of Reconstruction 142 Bibliographical Essay 145 Index 163 Photographs follow page 92 ...
