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A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 / Eric Foner.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 668 .F662 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foner, Eric, 1943-
- Series:
- Perennial Library
- Standardized Title:
- Reconstruction
- 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.
- Politics and government.
- Reconstruction--United States--19th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, 1990, ©1990.
- 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 ed. of: Reconstruction. ©1988.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Foner, Eric. Reconstruction. Short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877.
- ISBN:
- 0060964316
- 9780060964313
- 0060551828
- 9780060551827
- 9781442097322
- 1442097329
- OCLC:
- 19590628
- Online:
- Publisher description
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