Declarations of dependence : the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Downs, Gregory P.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Subjects:	North Carolina > Social conditions > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects. North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects. North Carolina > Politics and government > 1865-1950. North Carolina > Politics and government > 1861-1865. Populism > North Carolina > History > 19th century. Political culture > North Carolina > History > 19th century. Patron and client > Political aspects > North Carolina > History > 19th century. Dependency > Political aspects > North Carolina > History > 19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > North Carolina. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency
Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence
Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines
Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau
The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction
The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption
Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics
A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state
Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?