Bibliograph

Reconstruction, America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877, Eric Foner

Type

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Reconstruction, America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877, Eric Foner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-641) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reconstruction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

870290498

Responsibility statement

Eric Foner

Series statement

New American nation seriesHarperPerennial modernclassics

Sub title

America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877

Summary

Historian Eric Foner chronicles the way in which Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. He 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 committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans

Table Of 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 -- Epilogue: "The river has its bend."

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

America's unfinished revolution

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