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020 _a9781139058421 (ebook)
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050 0 0 _aE480.5
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082 0 0 _a973.7/41
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100 1 _aLee, Susanna Michele,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aClaiming the Union :
_bCitizenship in the Post-Civil War South / [electronic resource]
_cSusanna Michele Lee.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (270 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCambridge Studies on the American South
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _aThis book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male and female; elite and non-elite; white, black, and American Indian - disagreed with the federal government over the obligations citizens owed to their nation and the obligations the nation owed to its citizens. Susanna Michele Lee explores these clashes through the operations of the Southern Claims Commission, a federal body that rewarded compensation for wartime losses to Southerners who proved that they had been loyal citizens of the Union. Lee argues that Southerners forced the federal government to consider how white men who had not been soldiers and voters, and women and racial minorities who had not been allowed to serve in those capacities, could also qualify as loyal citizens. Postwar considerations of the former Confederacy potentially demanded a reconceptualization of citizenship that replaced exclusions by race and gender with inclusions according to loyalty.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107015326
830 0 _aCambridge Studies on the American South.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058421
_zCambridge Books Online
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