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A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 Eric Foner
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 668 .F662 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foner, Eric, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Harper Perennial modern classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.
- United States.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Updated edition; First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2015.
- Summary:
- Looks at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the South after the Civil War.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Abridged from Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780062370860 (updated edition)
- 0062370863 (updated edition)
- OCLC:
- 879602093
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