The ordeal of the reunion : a new history of Reconstruction

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Label

The ordeal of the reunion : a new history of Reconstruction

Title remainder

a new history of Reconstruction

Statement of responsibility

Mark Wahlgren Summers

Creator

• Summers, Mark W., (Mark Wahlgren), 1951-

Subject

• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900

Language

eng

Summary

"For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently enslaved for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction's need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of federalism and republican democracy. This book offers a fresh explanation for Reconstruction's demise and a case for its essential successes as well as its great failures. Indeed, this book demonstrates the extent to which the victors' aims in 1865 were met--and at what cost"--

Member of

• Littlefield history of the Civil War era

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.8

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E668

LC item number

.S943 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Littlefield history of the Civil War era