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Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways Series)
Michael W. Fitzgerald
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Hardcover. Series: American Ways Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 426.
Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, revisionist historians have been sympathetic to the racial justice motivations of the Radical Republican Reconstruction policies that followed the Civil War. But this emphasis on positive goals and accomplishments has obscured the role of the Republicans in the overthrow of their own program. Rich with insight, Michael W. Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid Failure recounts how postwar financial missteps and other governance problems quickly soured idealistic Northerners on the practical ... Read more
Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, revisionist historians have been sympathetic to the racial justice motivations of the Radical Republican Reconstruction policies that followed the Civil War. But this emphasis on positive goals and accomplishments has obscured the role of the Republicans in the overthrow of their own program. Rich with insight, Michael W. Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid Failure recounts how postwar financial missteps and other governance problems quickly soured idealistic Northerners on the practical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
American Ways Series
Condition
New
Weight
426g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566637343
SKU
V9781566637343
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About Michael W. Fitzgerald
Michael W. Fitzgerald teaches American history at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he lives. He is the author of prizewinning articles on aspects of Reconstruction and in two other books has written on the politics of emancipation and of agricultural change in the post—Civil War period.
Reviews for Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways Series)
A useful introduction to the dramatic and bloody tragedy of Reconstruction.
Christopher Waldrep, author of Jury Discrimination Fitzgerald . . . has pulled off the enormously difficult task of writing a short, clear, analytically distinctive history of Reconstruction.
Thomas Pegram, author of Battling Demon Rum Engagingly written . . . can be read with profit by students, general ... Read more
Christopher Waldrep, author of Jury Discrimination Fitzgerald . . . has pulled off the enormously difficult task of writing a short, clear, analytically distinctive history of Reconstruction.
Thomas Pegram, author of Battling Demon Rum Engagingly written . . . can be read with profit by students, general ... Read more