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.