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A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 / Eric Foner.
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. |
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Author Notes
A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography)
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