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Description

1. xiv, 272 pages : map; 25 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Series statement

1. Civil War America

Uniform title

1. Civil War America (Series)

Subject

1. Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
2. 1865 - 1877
3. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > North Carolina, Western
4. North Carolina, Western
5. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Setting the stage: antebellum and Civil War western North Carolina -- Mountain masters without slaves: the aftermath of slavery, 1865-1867 -- Great time for the Tories and Negroes: loyalty, race, and power, 1865-1868 -- Agents of change: the Freedmen's Bureau, 1867-1868 -- Every thing that the devil can suggest: Klan violence and the Republicans' failure, 1868-1872 -- The beginning of a "new" mountain South: agriculture, railroads, and social change, 1872-1880.

Call number

1. IKR 16-3315

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.

Author

1. Nash, Steven E., author.

Title

1. Reconstruction's ragged edge : the politics of postwar life in the southern mountains / Steven E. Nash.

Publisher

1. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Civil War America
2. Civil War America (Series)

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1865 - 1877

LCCN

1. 2015017856

ISBN

1. 9781469626246 (cloth ; alk. paper)
2. 1469626241 (cloth ; alk. paper)
3. 9781469626253 (ebook)
4. 146962625X (ebook)

Research call number

1. IKR 16-3315