Title:
Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877
Author:
Preferred Call Number:
973.8 FONER 2014
Publication Information:
New York, New York : HarperPerennial, 2014.
Subject:
Physical Description:
xlii, 690 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Edition:
Updated edition.
General Note:
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1988 by Harper & Row, Publishers. First Perennial Classics edition published 2002"--Title page verso.
"With a new introduction"--Back cover.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780062354518
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.
