Eric Foner (Columbia University)

The Fiery Trial

Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

â A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.â â Boston Globe

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Norton
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 141mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780393340662
• ISBN-10: 039334066X
• Artikelnr.: 33260089

Autorenporträt

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. In his teaching and scholarship, he focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. In 2006, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. His most recent books are The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes and the Pulitzer Prize for History; Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, winner of the New York Historical Society Book Prize; and The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.