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- English
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A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
About this book
From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.
Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves’ searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and one committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.
This “masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history” (New Republic) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction to the 2014 Anniversary Edition
- 1: The World the War Made
- 2: Rehearsals for Reconstruction
- 3: The Meaning of Freedom
- 4: Ambiguities of Free Labor
- 5: The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction
- 6: The Making of Radical Reconstruction
- 7: Blueprints for a Republican South
- 8: Reconstruction Political and Economic
- 9: The Challenge of Enforcement
- 10: The Reconstruction of the North
- 11: The Politics of Depression
- 12: Redemption and After
- Epilogue: “The River Has Its Bend”
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
- Also by Eric Foner
- About the Author
- Back Ad
- Copyright
- About the Publisher