A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

by Eric Foner

On Sale: 01/06/2015

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

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A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

by Eric Foner

On Sale: 01/06/2015

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About the Book

From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.

Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It 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 one committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.

This “masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history” (New Republic) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.

Critical Praise

“Eric Foner has put together this terrible story with greater cogency and power, I believe, than has been brought to the subject heretofore. He avoids ideological skids, freeloading hindsight, and mirages of certitude….. Foner’s book brings to distinguished fruition one great cycle of Reconstruction historiography.” — New York Review of Books

“A heroic synthesis that should dominate the field-much like C. Vann Woodward’s interpretation of the new South. It gives nearly equal time to all the protagonists in the Reconstruction drama and recognizes how inextricably economic, political, social, and ideological issues are bound.” — Washington Post Book World

"Foner's book brings to distinguished fruition one great cycle of Reconstruction historiography." — New York Review of Books

“A remarkable clarity is one of the many beauties of this book that dwells on so many conflicts and ambiguities.” — Boston Globe

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780062370860
  • ISBN 10: 0062370863
  • Imprint: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
  • On Sale: 01/06/2015
  • Pages: 352
  • List Price:21.00 CAD
  • BISAC1 : HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
  • BISAC2 : HISTORY / African American
  • BISAC3 : HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
  • BISAC4 : HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
  • BISAC5 : POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
  • BISAC6 : HISTORY / Social History
  • BISAC7 : HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
  • BISAC8 : POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
  • BISAC9 : HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  • BISAC10 : HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

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