Reconstruction or A Time of Gifts

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Author: Eric Foner

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.

Table of Contents:

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

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A Time of Gifts (New York Review Books Classics Series)

Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor

At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor's book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube.

At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.

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Released in 1986 and 1977, respectively, these titles recollect Fermor's walking trip across Europe in the 1920s. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.