Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina.

This is a detailed, thorough, and exciting new survey of the discipline. The modestly sized volume pack eight dense essays that deliver intense, concentrated, and provocative reviews of the state of the field.... Everyone working in the field should consult this important book.

• Introduction ; 1. "A General Remodeling of Every Thing": Economy and Race in the Post-Emancipation South ; 2. Black Agency After Slavery ; 3. North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy ; 4. Reconstruction Politics and the Politics of Reconstruction ; 5. The Past as a Foreign Country: Reconstruction, Inside and Out ; 6. Reconstruction as a Constitutional Crisis ; 7. Reconstruction in Intellectual and Cultural Life ; 8. Civil War Remembrance as Reconstruction ; Index

Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina.

This is a detailed, thorough, and exciting new survey of the discipline. The modestly sized volume pack eight dense essays that deliver intense, concentrated, and provocative reviews of the state of the field.... Everyone working in the field should consult this important book.

• Introduction ; 1. "A General Remodeling of Every Thing": Economy and Race in the Post-Emancipation South ; 2. Black Agency After Slavery ; 3. North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy ; 4. Reconstruction Politics and the Politics of Reconstruction ; 5. The Past as a Foreign Country: Reconstruction, Inside and Out ; 6. Reconstruction as a Constitutional Crisis ; 7. Reconstruction in Intellectual and Cultural Life ; 8. Civil War Remembrance as Reconstruction ; Index

Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina.

This is a detailed, thorough, and exciting new survey of the discipline. The modestly sized volume pack eight dense essays that deliver intense, concentrated, and provocative reviews of the state of the field.... Everyone working in the field should consult this important book.

• Introduction ; 1. "A General Remodeling of Every Thing": Economy and Race in the Post-Emancipation South ; 2. Black Agency After Slavery ; 3. North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy ; 4. Reconstruction Politics and the Politics of Reconstruction ; 5. The Past as a Foreign Country: Reconstruction, Inside and Out ; 6. Reconstruction as a Constitutional Crisis ; 7. Reconstruction in Intellectual and Cultural Life ; 8. Civil War Remembrance as Reconstruction ; Index