Pursuit of unity : a political history of the American South

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Perman surveys the entire span of southern political history from 1800 to the present.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Perman, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Subjects:
Political culture > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Political culture > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Political parties > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Political parties > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Politics and government > 19th century.
Southern States > Politics and government > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A one-party south : Republican ascendancy
  • A two-party south : Whigs and Democrats
  • A one-party south again : Democratic ascendancy
  • Politics without parties : the Confederacy
  • Party politics under assault : reconstruction
  • Achieving democratic hegemony : the 1880s
  • Eliminating the opposition : the 1890s
  • Democrats and demagogues in the solid south
  • Reform and reaction in the solid south
  • The New Deal challenge to the solid south
  • The liberal challenge in the 1940s
  • The solid south under attack : white defiance
  • The solid south under attack : black gains
  • Old responses and new directions, 1965-1980
  • The emergence of a two-party south since 1980.

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