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The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution  Cover Image E-book E-book

The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.

Foner, Eric, 1943- (author.).

Summary:

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393652581
  • ISBN: 0393652580
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index.
Language Note:
Text in English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: United States. Constitution. 13th-15th Amendments.
Constitutional history > United States > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Influence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Law and legislation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch.
Constitution (United States)
Constitutional history.
Legislation.
United States.
Genre: History.
Electronic books.


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