03915nam 2200721 a 450 991079146230332120220204171611.01-4696-0340-30-8078-7776-X(CKB)2560000000050386(EBL)655808(OCoLC)701057066(SSID)ssj0000468304(PQKBManifestationID)11322510(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468304(PQKBWorkID)10497715(PQKB)10603641(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244014(MdBmJHUP)muse23369(Au-PeEL)EBL655808(CaPaEBR)ebr10442126(CaONFJC)MIL929831(MiAaPQ)EBC655808(EXLCZ)99256000000005038620100723d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeclarations of dependence[electronic resource] the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 /Gregory P. DownsChapel Hill [N.C.] University of North Carolina Press20111 online resource (359 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1539-8 0-8078-3444-0 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 a counter : 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?.In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations of Dependence contends that the Civil War redirected, not destroyed, claims of dependence by exposing North Carolinians to the expansive but unsystematic power of Union and Confederate governments, and by loosening the legal ties that bound them to husbands, fathers, and masters.Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)North CarolinaDependencyPolitical aspectsNorth CarolinaHistory19th centuryPatron and clientPolitical aspectsNorth CarolinaHistory19th centuryPolitical cultureNorth CarolinaHistory19th centuryPopulismNorth CarolinaHistory19th centuryNorth CarolinaPolitics and government1861-1865North CarolinaPolitics and government1865-1950North CarolinaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsNorth CarolinaSocial conditions19th centuryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)DependencyPolitical aspectsHistoryPatron and clientPolitical aspectsHistoryPolitical cultureHistoryPopulismHistory975.6/03Downs Gregory P1172516MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791462303321Declarations of dependence3703500UNINA