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Book

Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877

Call Number

  • 973.8 F675.2 (CEN)

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Edition

Updated edition.

Publication Information

New York : HarperPerennial, 2014.

Physical Description

xlii, 690 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Summary

Chronicles how Americans responded to the changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery.

Notes

"First Perennial Classics edition published 2002 ... reissued 2014"--Title page verso.

"With a new introduction"--Page 4 of cover.

Original edition published as hbk.: New York : Harper & Row, 1988.

Contents

  • Introduction to the 2014 anniversary edition
  • 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."

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