A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Foner, Professor Of History Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062370863 ISBN 13: 9780062370860

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2015

Synopsis

From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated abridged edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.In this updated edition of the abridged Reconstruction, Eric Foner redefines 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. 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.

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About the Author:

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of several books. In 2006 he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062370863
• ISBN 13: 9780062370860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352