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

By: Foner, Eric.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Perennial Library.Publisher: New York : Harper & Row, 1990, c1990Description: xvi, 297 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0060964316; 9780060964313; 0060551828; 9780060551827.Subject(s): Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) | African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877DDC classification: 973.8
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 973.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00159461
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize.

Abridged ed. of: Reconstruction. c1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller.

(Bowker Author Biography)