{"product_id":"emancipation-and-reconstruction-isbn-9780882959955","title":"Emancipation and Reconstruction","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn adept distillation of the scholarship that has been produced since the 1950s-thoughtfully reorganized and updated to include a consideration of new works that have appeared since 1987-this new edition of Michael Perman's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to accessing the impact of what might best be described as a maturation of the Revisionist history of Emancipation and Reconstruction, Perman introduces previously neglected areas of interest that have assumed new significance, such as the nature of the southern labor system after slavery and the role of African Americans in Reconstruction politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe result is a lucid portrait of the post-Civil War years, one reluctant to employ such simplistic and judgemental terms as success or failure in assessing the complex problems of rebuilding the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword VII\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments, Second Edition XI\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments, First Edition XIII\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Emancipation and Reconstruction in History 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One: Shaping Emancipation, 1861-1870 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Slave Labor to Free Labor 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Response to Emancipation 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impact of Emancipation 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two: Planning Reconstruction, 1865-1868 40\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresidential Reconstruction 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCongressional Reconstruction 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three: Implementing Reconstruction, 1868-1873 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Republican Party in the South 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Achievement of Southern Reconstruction 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Ending Reconstruction, 1874-1879 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollapse in the South 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeglect in the North 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Dilemma of Reconstruction 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographical Essay 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhotographs follow page 92\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Perman\u003c\/b\u003e 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—\u003ci\u003eReunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-1868\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), which won three book prizes, and \u003ci\u003eStruggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). He is also editor of \u003ci\u003eMajor Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003eThe Coming of the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), and \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on the American Past\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989120368869,"sku":"NP9780882959955","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780882959955.jpg?v=1761782879","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/emancipation-and-reconstruction-isbn-9780882959955","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}