Research Catalog

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Description

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

Summary

1. 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.

Series statement

1. New American nation series
2. HarperPerennial modernclassics

Uniform title

1. New American nation series.
2. Harper Perennial modern classics.

Alternative title

1. America's unfinished revolution

Subject

1. United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
2. Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
3. Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
4. 1800-1899
5. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
6. African Americans > History > 1863-1877
7. African Americans > Suffrage > History > 19th century
8. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 19th century
9. HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
10. POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory
11. African Americans
12. African Americans > Suffrage
13. Civil rights movements
14. Politics and government
15. Race relations
16. Reconstruction
17. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877
18. United States > Race relations > 19th century
19. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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."

Call number

1. E668

Note

1. "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1988 by Harper & Row, Publishers. First Perrennial Classics edition published 2002"--Title page verso.
2. "With a new introduction"--Back cover.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-641) and index.

Awards (note)

1. National Book Award finalist

Author

1. Foner, Eric, 1943- author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. New York, New York : HarperPerennial, 2014.

Copyright date

1. ©2014

Edition

1. Updated edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. New American nation series
2. HarperPerennial modernclassics
3. New American nation series.
4. Harper Perennial modern classics.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-641) and index.

Awards

1. National Book Award finalist

Connect to:

1. Publisher description

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

LCCN

1. 2001051351

ISBN

1. 9780062354518 (paperback)
2. 0062354515 (paperback)

Research call number

1. *R-USLHG E668