Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877

Author

Eric Foner

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."