The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction

by Mark Wahlgren Summers

Book Overview

For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction's need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of federalism and republican democracy. Assessing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469617579
• ISBN13: 9781469617572
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"