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

Foner, Eric, 1943- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062354518
ISBN: 0062354515
Physical Description: xlii, 690 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Edition: Updated edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : HarperPerennial, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1988 by Harper & Row, Publishers. First Perrennial Classics edition published 2002"--Title page verso. "With a new introduction"--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-641) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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."
Awards Note:	National Book Award finalist