A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877

by Foner, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780060964313
• ISBN10: 0060964316
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize.

"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."- C. VANN WOODWARD, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix	(2)
Preface	xi
1 The World the War Made	1	(15)
2 Rehearsals for Reconstruction	16	(19)
3 The Meaning of Freedom	35	(20)
4 Ambiguities of Free Labor	55	(27)
5 The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction	82	(22)
6 The Making of Radical Reconstruction	104	(20)
7 Blueprints for a Republican South	124	(24)
8 Reconstruction: Political and Economic	148	(32)
9 The Challenge of Enforcement	180	(19)
10 The Reconstruction of the North	199	(18)
11 The Politics of Depression	217	(21)
12 Redemption and After	238	(16)
EPILOGUE: "The River Has Its Bend"	254	(7)
Suggestions for Further Reading	261	(16)
Index	277