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Record Nr.

UNISA996248086403316

Autore

Hahn Steven <1951->

Titolo

A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration / / Steven Hahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

0-674-25428-7

0-674-05958-1

0-674-01765-X

Edizione

[[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 610 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

975.0049607301734

Soggetti

African Americans - Southern States - Politics and government - 20th century

African Americans - Southern States - Politics and government - 19th century

African Americans - Social conditions - To 1964

Southern States Rural conditions

Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [481]-593) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: Looking Out from Slavery -- PART I: "The Jacobins of the Country" -- 1. Of Chains and Threads -- 2. "The Choked Voice of a Race at Last Unloosed" -- 3. Of Rumors and Revelations -- PART II: To Build a New Jerusalem -- 4. Reconstructing the Body Politic -- 5. "A Society Turned Bottomside Up" -- 6. Of Paramilitary Politics -- PART III: The Unvanquished -- 7. The Education of Henry Adams -- 8. Of Ballots and Biracialism -- 9. The Valley and the Shadows -- Epilogue: "Up, You Mighty Race" -- Appendix: Black Leaders Data Set