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by Michael Perman. 353 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Michael Perman

Publisher:

   University of North Carolina Press

Place of Publication:

  Chapel Hill  

Publication Year:

  1984
Subjects:   Reconstruction, Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950
Table of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
PART I. The Politics of Convergence: Reconstruction, 1869-1873
1. The Contest for the Political Center, 1869-1870 3
2. Republican Factionalism 22
3. The Democratic-Conservatives and the New Departure 57
4. The Whigs: Fulcrum of Faction and Party 87
5. Climax of Convergence: The Election of 1872 108
PART II. The Politics of Divergence: Redemption, 1874-1879
6. The Collapse of the Center, 1873-1875 135
7. The Forked Road to Redemption, 1873-1876 149
8. The Return of the Bourbons 178
9. The Bourbon Constitutions 193
10. The Resurgence of the Agricultural Interest 221
11. The Agrarian Reaction 237
12. The Democracy Restored and Readjusted 264
Notes 281
Bibliography 325
Index 341
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The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879
Book by Michael Perman; University of North Carolina Press, 1984
Subjects: Reconstruction, Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950
...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Reconstruction. 2. Southern States -- Politics...that the politics of southern Reconstruction cannot be understood without...they had failed to prevent Reconstruction and now faced four years of...
2.
The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century
Book by Robert F. Durden; University Press of Kentucky, 1985
Subjects: Southern States--Politics And Government--1775-1865, Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950
...CHAPTER FIVE Reconstruction and Redemption 1865...strongly sectional, states-rightist defense of...dental of the federal governments constitutional right...the great majority of southerners, like their northern...back to business -- and politics -- as usual. But neither...increase of power in government or in such private...only one issue in the states politics: how to protect liberty...northerners as well as southerners, the presence of large...
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Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914
Book by William A. Blair; University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Subjects: African Americans--Southern States--Anniversaries, Etc, Group Identity--Southern States--History, Memorials--Political Aspects--Southern States--History, Political Culture--Southern States--History, Power (Social Sciences)--Southern States--History, Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865-1877), Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Southern States--Race Relations, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments
...cm. - (Civil War America) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-8078-2896-3 (alk paper) I. Reconstruction. 2. Memorials-Political aspects- Southern States-History 3. Power (Social sciences)- Southern States-History 4...
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The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930
Book by William A. Link; University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Subjects: Progressivism (United States Politics), Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Southern States--Social Conditions
...and government 1865-1950. 2. Southern States Social conditions. 3...Progressivism United States politics I. Title. II. Series...impose new forms of government in which administrative...from the intrusions of government. Populists and early...over the culture of southern blacks reformers offered...that matter, about the politics of social reform. It...rest of the United States experienced in the early...governance in the post-Reconstruction South were shaped by...
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Man over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism
Book by Bruce Palmer; University of North Carolina Press, 1980
Subjects: Populism--United States--History, Populist Party (U.S.), Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950, United States--Politics And Government--1893-1897
...Michael Schwartz, Radical Protest and Social Structure , p. 13. 5 The tenancy figures for those southern states excluding Kentucky, Florida, and Virginia were: 1880 -- 39.7 percent, 1890 -- 43.7 percent, 1900 -- 52...1910 -- 55.1 percent. The data on tenancy came from Theodore Saloutos, Farmer Movements in the South , 1865- 1933, p. 237. 6 For the cooperative crusade, see Goodwyn, Democratic Promise , chap. 5; McMath...attack on the whole late nineteenth-century American political, economic, and social order. Beginning with the Southern Alliances St. Louis platform in late 1889, the radicals among the reformers promoted a national political program...cooperative crusade. In 1896 the Populist party collapsed in a disorderly commitment to fusion and sectional politics. By the admission of most of their historians and some of the Southern Populists themselves, free silver spelled...reforms considered more important in the Omaha platform and their early campaigns -- the subtreasury plan, government ownership of the railroads, telephone, and telegraph. Why did these Southerners, who in the early 1890s risked...
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Suffrage Restriction in Post-Reconstruction Texas: Urban Politics and the Specter of the Commune
Journal article by Patrick G. Williams; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, 2002
Subjects: Political rights, Loss of--Social aspects, Social history--Analysis, Southern States--History, Texas--History, United States history, 1865-1901, United States history--1865-1898, Voting--History
...and Free Labor in Texas, 1865," Journal of Southern History, 58 (February...and Texas Reconstruction Politics, 1871-1874," Southwestern...thesis, Rice University, 1950). (49) GDN, February...p. 193). (81) Barr, Reconstruction to Reform, 202-3; Kousser...City Politics: Atlanta, 1865-1903 (Westport, Conn...48-51; Kousser, Shaping of Southern Politics, 155-56; and Lynette Boney...Crisis and Commission Government in Memphis: Elite Rule...
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The Discourse of Law in Time of War: Politics and Professionalism during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Journal article by Norman W. Spaulding; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 46, 2005
Subjects: American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Influence, Civil war--Influence, Postwar reconstruction--Influence, Practice of law--Management
...reason up from facts on the ground. (264) A welter of theories on the status of the southern states emerged: the states had committed "suicide," were in the "grasp of war," a conquered province, no longer had "republican" governments under the Guarantee Clause, and had forfeited their rights but not their duties. (265) But if law is a prescribed...having little, if any, foundation in precedent and lacking identifiable limits on federal power. (266) And as southern recalcitrance became painfully clear, each theory had to bear the weight of justifying deeper and deeper federal...pamphlets) to argue that constitutional interpretation had to be placed on less political footing. (267) His 1865 and 1866 lectures are especially noteworthy, not only because of the doctrinal solution he proposes to rescue...avoid the fact that other elite law writers were feeding the fires, and he lashes out at his peers for allowing politics and conditions on the ground to corrupt their analysis. (268) The concept of professionalism he articulates...
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A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature for 1995
Journal article by Jerry T. Williams; The Mississippi Quarterly, 1996
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...pro-Washington and his "accommodationist politics," but they drifted from this stance...victories denied in the defeat of 1865 and at the same time immunize southern children against democratic reforms...In the post-Civil War United States, written histories of the Negro...Lafcadio Hearn. IV. MODERN (1920-1950) 234. AGEE, JAMES Cosgrove, Peter...Chabriers Faulkners Families: A Southern Saga (1993). "Considering Faulkners...definable) region of the United States, Chabrier brings a rich context...effect on the president and the government concerning their attitudes toward...Egakareta Kokujin ni ATsuite (Notes on Southern novels 4: the blacks described...
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Bibliography: A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature for 1992
Journal article; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 46, 1993
Subjects: American literature--Bibliography, Southern States--Literature
...number of authors of Migration novels. IV. MODERN (1920-1950) 250. ABERNETHY, THOMAS PERKINS Bailey, Fred Arthur. "Thomas...education, and his career. He "represented the last generation of Southern intellectuals who refused to accept the verdict of the Civil...and language-filled canvases, in many cases, are uniquely southern, and focus, not only on the rural landscape of the South...
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Radical Politics and Constitutional Theory: Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan and the Problem of Reconstruction
Journal article by Earl M. Maltz; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 32, 2006
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...idea that the need to both provide security in the Southern states and prevent the emergence of the "slave power" as...vision of a state-centered system, with a federal government whose actions were strongly constrained by constitutional...Merritt Howard" (masters thesis, Wayne University, 1950), 8-10, 21-22, 28-29. (3) Cincinnati Commercial, March...section 4 of the Constitution provides that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." Congressional Globe, 40th Cong., 1st sess., 1867...in detail in William Gillette, The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment (Baltimore...
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Income Reconstruction
Magazine article by Charles E. Price, Leonard G. Weld; The CPA Journal, Vol. 68, August 1998
Subjects: Burden of proof, Court decisions, False information, Income reconstruction, Internal Revenue Code, Section 446(B), Taxable income, United States
...application of this skill is income reconstruction. But, the sword cuts both ways...reiterated in IRC section 6001, which states that anyone liable for tax must...regulations section 1.274-5T(c)(5) states that if records are lost due to...
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Time for a Third Reconstruction
Magazine article by Eric Foner; The Nation, Vol. 256, February 1, 1993
Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights, Reconstruction--Social aspects
...Reconstruction, in which the national government made its first effort to protect the equal rights of all Americans. Reconstruction is the most misunderstood era of our history. It was long viewed as a time of rampant corruption presided over by...
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Andrew Johnson's Good Deed: How the Tragedy of Reconstruction Contained the Seeds of the Civil Rights Movement
Magazine article by Jennifer Weber; Washington Monthly, Vol. 38, January 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (Book)--Book reviews
...progressive laws and constitutional amendments. But with the onset of a financial panic in 1873 and Northerners tiring of Reconstruction, this period of promise petered out. Reconstruction ended ignominiously in a political deal over the presidency that...
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Fables of the Reconstruction: The Effort to Rebuild Iraq Looks Less like an Aid Mission Than a Criminal Racket
Magazine article by Christian Parenti; The Nation, Vol. 279, August 30, 2004
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...Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New Press) will be published in November. He is a fellow at CUNYs Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
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Testimony on Iraq Reconstruction
Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, May 22, 2003
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...perspective on stabilization and reconstruction efforts in Iraq. Our Imperative...phase of our plan, an Iraqi government would assume sovereignty...Bush has said, the United States intends to stay in Iraq as...responsibility of a stable Iraqi government. The United States is dedicated to ensuring...
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 28, 2006
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...the countrys oil money, according to a new government report. "There was insufficient systematic planning for human capital management in Iraq before and during the U.S.-directed stabilization and reconstruction operations," said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, in a new "lessons learned" report released yesterday. "The practical limitations ensuing from this shortfall...
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55th Anniversary of the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 18, 2007
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...but also to defuse the peoples restiveness. Chinas reconstruction program attracted international attention. A brainchild...number of distinctive features. It was the first non-government organization in the country committed to the cause...
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Webb Lauds Freshman Power; Democrats to Pitch Panel to Track Reconstruction
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 17, 2007
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...one independent to propose a new version of World War IIs Truman Committee. The new commission would account for how reconstruction and contracting money is being spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and would examine the role of private contractors...
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Al-Maliki Calls Iraq 'Front Line' in War on Terror; Asks U.S. to Stay, Seeks More Reconstruction Aid
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Subjects: Postwar reconstruction--Political aspects
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Reconstruction of Iraq to Cost $7.3 Billion This Year; Administration Refuses to Make Longer-Term Projections
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RECONSTRUCTION 1865 77, in U.S. history...governors appointed by him, the Southern states held conventions that voided...for blacks. By the end of 1865 every ex-Confederate state...had reestablished civil government. The control of white...the offices in the new governments, moreover, were won by...Congress convened (Dec. 4, 1865) it refused to seat the Southern representatives. Johnson...that the ex-Confederate states were in a state of civil...
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION (RFC), former U.S. government agency, created in 1932 by the administration of Herbert Hoover...administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It financed the construction and operation of war plants, made loans to foreign governments, provided protection against war and disaster damages, and engaged in numerous other activities. In 1939 the RFC merged...
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International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (IBRD), independent specialized agency of...IFC; est. 1956), which invests in private enterprises without government guarantee. The IFC has 181 member nations. The bank organized...
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Alabama , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...successor, H. F. De Bardeleben, marking the rise of industry in Alabama. Industrialization The railroads built during Reconstruction were a major impetus to the industrialization of Alabamas economy. Birmingham was founded in 1870, and its first blast...
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Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...responsibility law that limited spending by the states; the legislation was a result of fiscal crises in several Brazilian states. A series of corruption scandals that undermined the governing coalition in early 2001 was followed by an energy crisis that led the government to order widespread cuts in electrical consumption from May until Mar., 2002; the crisis resulted from a drought...Freyre, Order and Progress; Brazil from Monarchy to Republic (tr. 1970); F. de Azevedo, Brazilian Culture (tr. 1950, repr. 1971); E. B. Burns, A History of Brazil (2d ed. 1980); P. McDonough, Power and Ideology in Brazil (1981); T. C. Bruneau, The Church in Brazil: The Politics of Religion (1982); P. S. Falk and D. V. Fleischer, Brazils Economic and Political Future (1988); R. P. Guirmaraes...
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