Reconstruction [[electronic resource] /] / Claudine L. Ferrell
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| Autore: |
Ferrell Claudine L. <1950->
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| Titolo: |
Reconstruction [[electronic resource] /] / Claudine L. Ferrell
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn., : Praeger, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 1865-1877 |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology of Events; Historical Overview; Chapter 1 Forming Battle Lines: The President, the South, and Congress, 1865-1866; Chapter 2 Taking Aim at the South and a President: Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-1869; Chapter 3 Fading Dreams: Congressional Reconstruction Ends, 1869-1877; Chapter 4 Fighting Old and New Enemies: The South, 1865-1877; Photo essay; Chapter 5 There Was More to Reconstruction than Reconstruction: Non-Southern Issues; Chapter 6 Concluding Interpretive Essay; Biographies: The Personalities of Reconstruction |
| Primary Documents of ReconstructionAnnotated Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Few periods in American history have aroused as much debate as the years immediately after the Civil War, those commonly referred to simply as Reconstruction. The victorious North had to determine how to treat the vanquished South and how to make a nation whole once again. The divisive issues of freedom and civil rights became even more complex than before the War and dominated national politics. Also at stake was the balance of power among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Before it was all over, a president was impeached (though not convicted), and a rigorous p |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reconstruction |
| ISBN: | 1-282-41966-8 |
| 9786612419669 | |
| 0-313-09133-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456476003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Greenwood guides to historic events, 1500-1900.