The Road to Redemption

by Michael Perman

• ISBN13: 9780807841419
• ISBN10: 0807841412
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-01-21
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Summary

'The Road to Redemption is an original and provocative reinterpretation of Reconstruction politics. No one interested in the nineteenth-century South can afford to ignore it.' --Eric Foner, Columbia University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Politics of Convergence: Reconstruction, 1869-1873	p. 1
the Contest for the Political Center, 1869-1870	p. 3
Republican Factionalism	p. 22
the Democratic-Conservatives and the New Departure	p. 57
the Whigs: Fulcrum of Faction and Party	p. 87
Climax of Convergence: the Election of 1872	p. 108
The Politics of Divergence: Redemption, 1874-1879	p. 133
the Collapse of the Center, 1873-1875	p. 135
the Forked Road to Redemption, 1873-1876	p. 149
the Return of the Bourbons	p. 178
the Bourbon Constitutions	p. 193
the Resurgence of the Agricultural Interest	p. 221
the Agrarian Reaction	p. 237
the Democracy Restored and Readjusted	p. 264
Notes	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 341
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