Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908 by Gregory P. Downs

Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908

Gregory P. Downs

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In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pl...

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