Declarations of dependence
Subtitle: the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908
By: Gregory P. Downs
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780807834442
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Social aspects; Dependency; Patron and client; Populism; Social conditions; History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency; title: Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence; title: Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines; title: Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau; title: The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction; title: The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption; title: Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics; title: A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state; title: Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?