Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780190454791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Allen C. (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and D

Opis

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.

Recenzje

a well-organized, cogent recounting of a complex topic William A. Link, Journal of Southern History

O autorze

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction.