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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Steven E., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Civil War America (Series)

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--North Carolina, Western.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Western North Carolina.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9781469626246

1469626241

OCLC:

909777090

Publisher Number:

99967151869