Nation within a nation : the American South and the federal government / edited by Glenn Feldman.

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Feldman invited contributions by scholars from the US and overseas to better understand the essence as well as the variety of the South's perceived or real relationship with the federal government.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Feldman, Glenn (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Subjects:
Federal government > Southern States > Historiography.
Southern States > Politics and government.
United States > Politics and government.
Physical Description:xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Glenn Feldman
  • Part I: Past to present: First to secede, last to accede: South Carolina's resistance to the Republic, 1780-present / Thomas F. Schaller
  • Part II: Race, war, and culture: Tom watson and resistance to federal war policies in Georgia during World War I / Zachary C. Smith
  • "Negroes, the New Deal, and . . . Karl Marx": Southern antistatism in depression and war / Jason Morgan Ward
  • Dixiecrats, dissenting delegates, and the dying Democratic Party: Mississippi's right turn from Roosevelt to Johnson / Rebecca Miller Davis
  • Right turn? the Republican Party and African American politics in post-1965 Mississippi / Chris Danielson
  • Part III: A nation within a nation?: Texas philosophy, Nashville agrarianism, Reagan republicanism, and the Neo-Confederacy: the influence of M. E. Bradford / Fred Arthur Bailey
  • The evil empire within: Southern nationalism and the Washington problem / David R. Jansson
  • Part IV: Economic development and reform: Getting farmers? and tourists? "out of the mud": Alabama's nineteenth-century experience with public projects and its response to the Federal Road Aid Acts of 1916 and 1921 / Martin T. Olliff
  • "From nothin? to somethin?": the Tennessee Valley Authority and federal-local cooperation in the Sun Belt South, 1940-1960 / Matthew L. Downs
  • Lighting the "dark and evil world": Judge J. Smith Henley, Arkansas, and the federal judiciary's reform of the southern prison / Gregory L. Richard
  • Part V: Tax fury and the tea party: The Tea Party in the South: populism revisited? / Allan B. McBride
  • Deal or no deal: taxes, government spending, and Alabamians having their cake and eating it too / Natalie Motise Davis.