A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 / Eric Foner.

By: Foner, Eric, 1943-Material type: TextTextSeries: Perennial LibraryPublication details: New York : Harper & Row, 1990, ©1990Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 297 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cmISBN: 0060964316; 9780060964313; 0060551828; 9780060551827Uniform titles: Reconstruction Subject(s): Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) | African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877Genre/Form: History. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877.DDC classification: 973.8 LOC classification: E668 | .F662 1990
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.
Summary: Looks at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the South after the Civil War.
Item type: Book
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Abridged ed. of: Reconstruction. c1988.

Includes index.

With bibliography (p. [261]-275) and index.

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.

Looks at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the South after the Civil War.

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