The American promise: a history of the United States
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Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. Taken together, the essays work towards reintegrating the social, political, and inte…
"In the eyes of both contemporaries and historians, the United States became an empire in 1898. By taking possession of Cuba and the Philippines, the nation seemed to have reached a watershed moment in its rise to power-spurring arguments over whether it should be a colonial pow…
The golden age of black nationalism: 1850-1925
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Discusses the work of Crummell, DuBois, Douglass, and Washington, looks at the literature of Black nationalism, and identifies trends and goals of Black Americans.
"[...] Many nineteenth-century dissenters against an emerging regime of U.S. space power nonetheless saw in the tools of astronomy, land surveying, and navigation a means of producing alternatives to that regime. And it is to these dissenters that this book will turn for insight…
"In 1834, a Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America as both a prized guest and an advertisement for a merchant firm-a promotional curiosity with bound feet and a celebrity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. This first biography of Afong Moy explores how she shap…
A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
by Foner, Eric
fromHarper Perennial modern classics
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"From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and …
An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize.
Looks at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the South after the Civil War.
