Declarations of dependence [electronic resource] : the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / Gregory P. Downs.

By: Downs, Gregory PContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011Description: 346 p. : ill., portsISBN: 9780807877760 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- North Carolina | Dependency -- Political aspects -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century | Patron and client -- Political aspects -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century | Political culture -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century | Populism -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century | North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 | North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 | North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects | North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 975.6/03 LOC classification: F259 | .D69 2011Online resources: Click to View
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?.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?.

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