| Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 acounter : 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? |
| Summary |
Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Downs 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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North Carolina. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1861-1865 |
| Subject |
North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
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| Chronological Term |
1865-1950 |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- North Carolina.
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Dependency -- Political aspects -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
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Dependency. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Patron and client -- Political aspects -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
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Patron and client. |
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Political culture -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
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Political culture. |
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Populism -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
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Populism. |
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North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1950 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Downs, Gregory P. Declarations of dependence. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834442 (DLC) 2010029301 (OCoLC)650827354 |
| ISBN |
9780807877760 (electronic book) |
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080787776X (electronic book) |
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9781469603407 (electronic book) |
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1469603403 (electronic book) |
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9780807834442 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807834440 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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