Reconstruction's ragged edge : the politics of postwar life in the southern mountains

The Resource Reconstruction's ragged edge : the politics of postwar life in the southern mountains
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Reconstruction's ragged edge : the politics of postwar life in the southern mountains
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the politics of postwar life in the southern mountains
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Steven E. Nash
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eng
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"Nash analyzes the unfolding of Reconstruction in the mountain counties of southern Appalachia, focusing on the particular ways that region's patterns of development, relatively low levels of prewar slaveholding, political allegiances, histories of violence, etc., shaped the era politically and socially. Nash chronicles the region's political transformation, first as a new politics predicated on wartime loyalty rose in place of the prewar partisan system. He argues this first transition was followed by a further transformation as anti-Confederates relied on the federal government (mostly in the form of the Freedmen's Bureau) to establish a coherent party and platform in the region. Finally, Nash shows how the Conservative resurgence toppled this new regime, with conservatives aggressively courting new economic development schemes in order to connect the region into the burgeoning national markets"--
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975.6/04
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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index present
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F259
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.N37 2016
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non fiction
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bibliography
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Civil War America

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