Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner (Author)
With a New IntroductionFrom the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prizewinning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern AmericaEric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post⁰́₃Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans⁰́₄black and white⁰́₄responded 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 committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post⁰́₃Civil War period⁰́₄an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today
eBook, English, 2014
Updated edition
Harper Collins Publishers Inc., New York, 2014