Format:
1 online resource (407 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780807899250
Content:
Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. ONE-PARTY DOMINANCE, 1800-1861 -- 1 A One-party South: REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY -- The Republicans in Power -- Federalists in the South -- The Virginia Dynasty -- The Missouri Crisis, 1819-1821 -- 2 A Two-Party South: WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS -- A System of National Parties -- The Whig Party in the South -- John C. Calhoun's Search for Southern Unity -- 3 A One-Party South Again: DEMOCRATIC ASCENDANCY -- Sectional Issues in National Politics -- Party Differences Disappear -- The Southern Whigs Disappear -- One-Party Politics Returns -- The Secession Crisis -- PART II. NO-PARTY POLITICS, 1861-1865 -- 4 Politics without Parties: THE CONFEDERACY -- The Confederate Constitution -- The Confederacy's Political System -- PART III. ONE-PARTY HEGEMONY, 1865-1901 -- 5 Party Politics under Assault: RECONSTRUCTION -- The North's Terms -- The South's Response -- Illegitimacy and Insurgency in the Reconstructed South -- Regime Change in the Reconstruction South -- 6 Achieving Democratic Hegemony: THE 1880s -- The Southern Democrats in Power -- The Challenge of the Virginia Readjusters -- 7 Eliminating the Opposition: THE 1890s -- The Populist Insurgency -- Disfranchisement -- A New Electoral System for the South -- PART IV. ONE-PARTY SYSTEM, 1901-1965 -- 8 Democrats and Demagogues in the Solid South -- The Solid South as a Political System -- The Southern Demagogue -- 9 Reform and Reaction in the Solid South -- Southern Progressivism -- The South in the Wilson Administration -- Business Progressivism and the ''Benighted South -- 10 The New Deal Challenge to the Solid South -- Thunder from the South: Huey Long -- The South in the New Deal -- The New Deal in the South -- 11 The Liberal Challenge in the 1940s -- The South and the Home Front -- Postwar Repercussions and Dangers.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807833247
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807833247
Language:
English
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