

A Newly Updated Edition Of The Prizewinning Classic Work On The Post-civil War Period That Shaped Modern America.-back Cover.

First Perennial Classics Edition Published 2002. 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.- Introduction To The 2014 Anniversary Edition - The World The War Made - Rehearsals For Reconstruction - The Meaning Of Freedom - Ambiguities Of Free Labor - The Failure Of Presidential Reconstruction - The Making Of Radical Reconstruction - Blueprints For A Republican South - Reconstruction : Political And Economic - The Challenge Of Enforcement - The Reconstruction Of The North - The Politics Of Depression - Redemption And After - Epilogue: The River Has Its Bend. Reconstruction Chronicles The Way In Which Americans-black And White-responded To The Unprecedented Changes Unleashed By The War And The End Of Slavery.
