A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 / Eric Foner.
Looks at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the South after the Civil War.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062370860
- ISBN: 0062370863
- Physical Description: xxx, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Updated edition; First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Abridged from Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution"--Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The world the war made -- Rehearsals for Reconstruction -- The meaning of freedom -- Ambiguities of free labor -- The failure of presidential Reconstruction -- The making of radical Reconstruction -- Blueprints for a Republican South -- Reconstruction : political and economic -- The challenge of enforcement -- The Reconstruction of the North -- The politics of depression -- Redemption and after -- Epilogue: "The river has its bend." |
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Subject: | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877. African Americans > History > 1863-1877. |