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Interpreting American History : Reconstruction.

Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois lamented America's post--Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as in word. "If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, John David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ashland : Kent State University Press, ©2016.
Series:Interpreting American history series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: Interpreting American History Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Reconstruction Historiography: An Overview; Chapter Two: Presidential Reconstruction; Chapter Three: Radical Reconstruction; Chapter Four: Reconstruction: Emancipation and Race; Chapter Five: Reconstruction: National Politics, 1865-1877; Chapter Six: Reconstruction: Gender and Labor; Chapter Seven: Reconstruction: Intellectual Life and Historical Memory; Chapter Eight: Reconstruction: Transnational History; Bibliography; Contributors.