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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction Allen C. Guelzo (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College)

Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction By Allen C. Guelzo (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College)

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Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.

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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction Summary

Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College)

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race relations after the abolition of slavery and rise of Jim Crow. Reconstruction also struggled to successfully manage the Southern resistance towards a Northern, free-labor pattern. But the failures cannot obscure a number of notable accomplishments, with decisive long-term consequences for American life: the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, the election of the first African American representatives to the US Congress, and the avoidance of any renewed outbreak of civil war. Reconstruction suffered from poor leadership and uncertainty of direction, but it also laid the groundwork for renewed struggles for racial equality during the Civil Rights Movement. This Very Short Introduction delves into the constitutional, political, and social issues behind Reconstruction to provide a lucid and original account of a historical moment that left an indelible mark on American social fabric. Award-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo depicts Reconstruction as a bourgeois revolution - as the attempted extension of the free-labor ideology embodied by Lincoln and the Republican Party to what was perceived as a Southern region gone astray from the Founders' intention in the pursuit of Romantic aristocracy.

Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction Reviews

a well-organized, cogent recounting of a complex topic * William A. Link, Journal of Southern History *
Reconstruction provides a judicious and full account that serves as an entry point into the subject * William A. Link, University of Florida , The Journal of Southern History *

About Allen C. Guelzo (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College)

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction Ch 1: Vengeance Ch 2: Arrogance Ch 3: Alienation Ch 4: Reconciliation Ch 5: Dissension Ch 6: Law Ch 7: Withdrawal Epilogue: Reconstructions References Further reading Index

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CIN0190454792VG
9780190454791
0190454792
Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2020-05-28
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