Reconstruction : a concise history
(2018)
By:
Guelzo, Allen C.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.8/GUELZO,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
DESCRIPTION
vii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780190865696, 0190865695
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This concise history delves into the constitutional, political, and social issues behind Reconstruction to provide a lucid and original account of a historical moment that left an indelible mark on American social fabric. [The author] depicts Reconstruction as a "bourgeois revolution"--As the attempted extension of the free-labor ideology embodied by Lincoln and the Republican Party to what was perceived as a Southern region gone awry from the Founders' intention in the pursuit of Romantic aristocracy"--