Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1879 (American History Series)
Michael Permanis Professor of History and Research Professor in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.A. at Oxford University and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written three books on the late nineteenth century South—Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-1868(1973),The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879(1984), which won three book prizes, andStruggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908(2001). He is also editor ofMajor Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction(1998),The Coming of the American Civil War(1993), andPerspectives on the American Past(1995). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979-80 and has been appointed the John Adams Distinguished Professor in American History in the Netherlands, 2002-2003.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.