Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

by C. Vann Woodward

Book Overview

Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did not restore the old order in the South, or restore the South to parity with the Union, it did lay down the political foundations for reunion, bring Reconstruction to an end, and shape the future of four million...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064232
• ISBN13: 9780195064230
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"