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

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Main Author: Downs, Gregory P.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
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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?.