Splendid Failure : Postwar Reconstruction in the American South
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1566637392
ISBN-13
9781566637398
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Imprint
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 19th, 2008
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
324 grams
Dimensions
14.20 x 21.70 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Military history
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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 ...
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 consequences of the Radical Republican plan, and set the stage for the explosion that swept Southern Republicans from power and resulted in Northern acquiescence to the bloody repression of voting rights. The failed strategy offers a chastening example to present-day proponents of racial equality.
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