Reconstruction Updated Edition
America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 2, 2014
From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
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- Who it’s for
- A concise, layered guide to Reconstruction’s unsettled aftermath and its stubborn questions.
- Genres
- Civil War Era, Black History, 19th-Century America
- Published
- HarperCollins, December 2, 2014
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From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.
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It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; 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 post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.
Reconstruction Lens
A concise, layered guide to Reconstruction’s unsettled aftermath and its stubborn questions.
Come here for
- clear-eyed reconstruction history
- rigorous explanation without fuss
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- structured historical analysis
- works as read-through or reference
Where it sits
| Civil War Era | 99% |
|---|---|
| Black History | 48% |
| 19th-Century America | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Studying History
- Civil War Era
- World History
- Modern History
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- The Americas History
- Black History
- Philosophy Overviews
- Political History & Ideas
- Authors
- Eric Foner
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- December 2, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Studying History