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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458891403321

Autore

Perman Michael

Titolo

Pursuit of unity [[electronic resource] ] : a political history of the American South / / Michael Perman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4696-0451-5

0-8078-9925-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Disciplina

306.20975

Soggetti

Political culture - Southern States - History - 19th century

Political culture - Southern States - History - 20th century

Political parties - Southern States - History - 19th century

Political parties - Southern States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Southern States Politics and government 19th century

Southern States Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-377) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. ONE-PARTY DOMINANCE, 1800-1861; PART II. NO-PARTY POLITICS, 1861-1865; PART III. ONE-PARTY HEGEMONY, 1865-1901; PART IV. ONE-PARTY SYSTEM, 1901-1965; PART V. FROM ONE PARTY TO TWO, 1965-1994; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Surveying the entire span of southern political history, Michael Perman takes a revealing and wide-ranging approach to the region's politics. During the nineteenth century, the South experienced nearly continuous political crisis from nullification through secession, war, and Reconstruction, concluding with the disfranchisement campaigns at century's end. The struggle for power took a different form in the twentieth century, as the South's political class forged the Solid South and then maneuvered to perpetuate its control within the region and its influence within the nation.B