Reconstruction: a concise history
"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 …
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- Full title :Reconstruction : a concise history / Allen C. Guelzo.
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"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" ...
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- Publication Date:2018
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190865696, 0190865695
- oclc:on1039305402
- LC Classification:E668
- Dewey Decimal:973.8
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