| Edition |
Updated edition. |
| Description |
xlii, 690 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
New American nation series
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HarperPerennial modernclassics
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New American nation series.
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Harper Perennial modern classics.
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| Note |
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1988 by Harper & Row, Publishers. First Perrennial Classics edition published 2002"--Title page verso. |
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"With a new introduction"--Back cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-641) and index. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| Awards |
National Book Award finalist |
| Provenance |
Gift of Professor John M. Baer. |
| Subject |
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. |
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Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
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Ku Klux Klan (19th century) |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. |
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Ku Klux Klan (19th century) |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1863-1877 |
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African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 19th century.
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African Americans -- Suffrage. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Civil rights movements. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1865-1877 |
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Race relations. |
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Reconstruction. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
America's unfinished revolution |
| ISBN |
0062354515 (paperback) |
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9780062354518 (paperback) |
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