Heather Cox Richardson The Death of Reconstruction (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Death of ReconstructionCondition: NewSubtitle: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901ISBN-10: 0674013662EAN: 9780674013667ISBN: 9780674013667Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/01/2004Description: Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy and calls for a redistribution of wealth. Using newspapers, public speeches, popular tracts, Congressional reports, and private correspondence, Richardson traces the changing Northern attitudes toward African-Americans from the Republicans' idealized image of black workers in 1861 through the 1901 publication of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery. She examines such issues as black suffrage, disenfranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching, and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities should be addressed through working-class action, and the emergence of an American middle class that championed individual productivity and saw African-Americans as a threat to their prosperity.The Death of Reconstruction offers a new perspective on American race and labor and demonstrates the importance of class in the post-Civil War struggle to integrate African-Americans into a progressive and prospering nation.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 476gAuthor: Heather Cox RichardsonGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, Social Sciences, Society & CultureItem Width: 20mmRelease Year: 2004 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: The Death of Reconstruction

Title: The Death of Reconstruction

Subtitle: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901

ISBN-10: 0674013662

EAN: 9780674013667

ISBN: 9780674013667

Release Date: 03/01/2004

Release Year: 2004

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Book Title: Death of Reconstruction : Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901

Number of Pages: 330 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Item Height: 0.1 in

Topic: United States / 19th Century, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Economic Conditions, Political Process / Political Parties

Publication Year: 2004

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History

Item Weight: 13 Oz

Item Length: 0.9 in

Author: Heather Cox Richardson

Item Width: 0.6 in

Format: Trade Paperback