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• ISBN: 9780807834442
• ISBN: 0807834440
• ISBN: 9781469615394
• Physical Description: 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 acounter : 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?

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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > North Carolina.
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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 > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
North Carolina > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
North Carolina > Social conditions > 19th century.