The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by COULTER, MERTON - 1947

Louisiana State University Press, c.1970, 6th.prtg. 8vo., cloth, 426pp., multiple owner's stamps, G/G $

Louisian State University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Nice bright clean copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

LSU Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Louisiana State University Press, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Louisiana State University, 1947. First Edition. Part of a series, A History of the South, by Coulter. VG+.

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Hardback. New. This book is Volume VIII of A History of the South, a ten-volume series designed to present a thoroughly balanced history of all the complex aspects of the South's culture from 1607 to the present. Like its companion volumes, The South During Reconstruction is written by an outstanding student of Southern history, E. Merton Coulter, who is also one of the editors of the series.The tragic Reconstruction period still casts its long shadow over the South. In his study, Mr. Coulter looks beyond the familiar political and economic patterns into the more fundamental attitudes and activities of the people. In this dismal period of racial and political bitterness, little notice has been taken of the strivings for reorganisation of agriculture under free labor, for industrial and transportation development, for a free-school system and higher education, and for the advance of religious, literary, and other cultural interests. Mr. Coulter's book shows these things to be very real, and… Read More

(Baton Rouge, LA): LSU Press, 1947. First edition, Vol. VIII in the "History of the South" series. 8vo. xii, (4), 426 pp. Illustrated from old engravings, paintings, line drawings, etc., plates, maps, one double-page. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in 1951; historian Bell Wiley's copy, with his ownership signature on the front endpaper. Laid in is a carbon-copy of a 17-page typed essay by Coulter (written about 1953), signed by him at the end and with a number of manuscript corrections, titled "Some Reviewers Reviewed," accompanied by a 1965 typed note signed from Coulter to Wiley forwarding the essay, a lengthy response to critical reviews of the book written by John Hope Franklin and others (charging "deliberately preverting [sic] facts and dealing in biased judgments and interpretations"), never published in full; Emory holds a ribbon-copy of the essay, which ends "Finally I am wondering if it can be true that Professor [Howard K.] Beale and Professor Franklin have really deluded… Read More