Description: Very good; Collectible. 1935 Russell & Russell hard cover-no dust jacket-owner's name inside cover-minor staining and tanning to page edge-otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean-a nice collectible-enjoy. read more
Edition: 746 PGS
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Russell & Russell Publishers
Date Published: 1935
ISBN-13:9780846201724ISBN:0846201720
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, WITH LABELS, CLEAN BOOK IN NICE COND. TAPE ON SPINE. 1935 EDITION. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780684856575ISBN:0684856573
Description: Very good. Paperback. Good Used. Has minor wear and/or markings. SKU: 23885826 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780684856575. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Russell & Russell, NY
Date Published: 1935
Description: Very Good. Ex-library with usual markings; otherwise no previous owner marks. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Pages are clean, no marking from previous owners, text has no markings, binding is square and tight. Wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Covers are rubbed in general. Text block is foxed. read more
"DuBois' massive Black Reconstruction is a challenging read, but well worth the effort and time.
Before this book, mainstream American history portrayed Black slaves as passive recipients of the gift of freedom, and blamed them for the failure of the Reconstruction governments.
DuBois turned this analysis around, and showed how four million Black people won their own freedom, won the right to vote, and started to build a real American democracy in the wake of the Civil War before Southern and Northern whites betrayed their experiment.
An early highlight of the book is DuBois' chapters on the "General Strike" and "The Coming of the Lord," where he describes how slaves deserted the fields, flocked to the Union armies, took up arms, and fought for their own freedom in the hundreds of thousands.
The best part of the book, though, was DuBois' in-depth look at how Southern whites tried to re-enslave African Americans after the war, and how African Americans won the right to vote. His analysis of the temporary alliance between Blacks and abolitionists, and Northern capital, was fascinating.
Throughout, DuBois treats the movement among African Americans as essential part of the US labor movement--and points out the weakness of the sections of the white labor movement that tried to grow by excluding or ignoring the Black movement.
He quotes from some sources at length, and these can slow you down. But overall the style of the book is beautiful, powerful, and moving."
"If you have any interest in the Civil War or Reconstruction, this book is a must read. This book is not simply about the role of race in American history, this book is about human history - social, economic, and political. This book is a brilliantly insightful historical gem.
While I don't agree with all of DuBois' political stances (he seems heavily influenced by Marxist ideals and champions rule by the proletariat), DuBois' understanding of the Civil War and the issues of Reconstruction is suberb and illuminating - and his research is impeccable.
The book does get a bit dry in spots in the second half of the book where DuBois focuses heavily on Reconstruction data throughout the southern states, but the statistics are well worth wading through to understand DuBois' often profound insights on the elements at play in Reconstruction."
"The major scholarly trend when DuBois was writing this book went something like this: freedmen were lazy, freedmen were ignorant, freedmen and greedy northerners messed up Reconstruction. DuBois instead argued for the central role of black agency in both the Civil War and Reconstruction. Therefore this book was widely ignored. Interestingly, it turns out that today we can ignore every book on Reconstruction written in the 1930s except this one. Take that John Dunning!"
"If you are interested in Sociology, Criminology or Black History, you must must must read DuBois. DuBois invented Anime theory, do not let your criminology professor lie to you, DuBois never got the respect he deserved because he was 1) an American (which in criminological history, didn't get you far) and 2) Black, which in the mid 1800s didn't get you far."
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