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It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \"smart book of enormous strengths\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222149575029,"sku":"9780062354518","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780062354518_435a7a2a-a400-4113-95c9-cb5e655320f1.jpg?v=1786011553"},{"product_id":"9780393340662","title":"The Fiery Trial – Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery","description":"Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289676460405,"sku":"9780393340662","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393340662_33e8a07b-d0e3-466c-9229-96d19dcae786.jpg?v=1786013417"},{"product_id":"9781563244407","title":"Freedom Road","description":"The tale of a Southern black who becomes a congressman during the Reconstruction period that followed the American Civil War. 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Here Black Reconstruction is joined, for the first time in a single volume with important writings that trace his thinking throughout his career about Reconstruction and its centrality in understanding American democracy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312645615989,"sku":"9781598537031","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781598537031_cc850e70-ab8e-4af3-9879-067e73eb1cec.jpg?v=1786023464"},{"product_id":"9780393603392","title":"Give Me Liberty! V1","description":"Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom. A single-author text by a leader in the field, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, accessible, concise, and integrated American history. Updated with powerful new scholarship on borderlands and the West, the Fifth Edition brings new interactive History Skills Tutorials and Norton InQuizitive for History, the award-winning adaptive quizzing tool. The best-selling Seagull Edition is also available in full color for the first time.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419569828213,"sku":"9780393603392","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393603392_dea91763-c479-463d-89fa-ef73fe2d2704.jpg?v=1786445711"},{"product_id":"our-fragile-freedoms","title":"Our Fragile Freedoms","description":"\u003cp\u003eEric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner's keynote has been American freedom and the recurring battles over its meanings and boundaries. His award-winning works show that freedom has been a birthright for some and a struggle for others, that rights gained can also be lost, and that they must always be tended with knowledge and vigilance. The present political moment makes the importance of these themes abundantly clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of Foner’s recent reviews and commentaries demonstrates the range of his interests and expertise, running from slavery and antislavery, through the disunion and remaking of the United States in the nineteenth century, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, and into our current politics. Each piece shows a master at work, melding historical knowledge and balanced judgment with crystalline prose. Foner takes up towering figures from Washington to Lincoln, Douglass, and Rosa Parks, pivotal events such as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Tulsa Race Massacre, and the fragility of constitutional guarantees to civil liberties, due process, and birthright citizenship, whether in times of war or peace. He also explores recent controversies over how to commemorate, and how to teach, our history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555329188213,"sku":"9781324157120","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-eric-foner.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}