Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-19632021
Books, Manuscripts
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction - and of American democracy itself. Black Reconstruction is a pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that, in the wake of censorship toward Du Bois's characterisation of Reconstruction by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was written to debunk influential historians whose racist ideas and emphases had disfigured the historical record. 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.
Main title:
Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings / W.E.B. Du Bois ; Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors.
Author:
Imprint:
New York, NY : The Library of America, 20212021
Collation:
xii, 1085 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Library of America ; 350.
Notes:
"W.E.B Du Bois: Black Reconstruction is published and kept in print with support from The Berkley Family Foundation and Elizabeth W. Smith"--Page facing title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 877-884, 1005-1039) and index.
ISBN:
9781598537031 (hbk)
Dewey class:
973.81
LC class:
E668
Language:
English
Subject:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)African Americans -- SuffrageAfrican Americans -- History -- 1863-1877African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th centuryAfrican Americans -- Employment -- History -- 19th centuryHistoryHistoryEthnic studiesHistory of the AmericasSocial & cultural history
BRN:
2900492