Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains (Civil War America)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1469626241 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Deconstructs post-Civil War mountain politics. and shows how the bitter clash took a long time to truly wind down.--Jon Elliston, WNC Magazine
"New take on mountain history" according to Fredericka Flynt. Dr Nash has written on a previously ignored phase of Southern History. He has thoroughly researched the statistics from each Western North Carolina county and his conclusions are quite logical, much economic history as well.
Nash is assistant professor of history at East Tennessee State University. . Steven E
In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South.Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, whi