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

• Autore: Downs Gregory P
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.6/03
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: 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 century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Declarations of dependence
• ISBN: 1-4696-0340-3; 0-8078-7776-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458208703321
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