Downs, Gregory P.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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 accounter : 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?

Subjects:

• North Carolina — Politics and government — 1861-1865.
• North Carolina — Politics and government — 1865-1950.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) — North Carolina.
• Dependency — Political aspects — North Carolina — History — 19th century.
• Patron and client — Political aspects — North Carolina — History — 19th century.
• Political culture — North Carolina — History — 19th century.
• Populism — North Carolina — History — 19th century.
• North Carolina — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects.
• United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects.
• North Carolina — Social conditions — 19th century.

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