TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durden,Robert Franklin
TI  - The self-inflicted wound: Southern politics in the nineteenth century 
T2  - New Perspectives on the South
SN  - 9780813161457
AV  - F213 .S454 2015
PY  - 1985///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 1865-1950
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: The Jeffersonian Ascendancy 1800-1828; CHAPTER TWO: The South and the Second Party System 1828-1846; CHAPTER THREE: From Sectional Crisis to the Eve of Disunion 1846-1860; CHAPTER FOUR: Secession and War1860-1865; CHAPTER FIVE: Reconstruction and Redemption 1865-1890; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; 2; b
N2  - The essentially tragic political fate of the American South in the nineteenth century resulted from what Robert F. Durden calls a ""self-inflicted wound""--The gradual surrender of the white majority to the pride, fears, and hates of racism. In this gracefully written and closely reasoned study, Durden traces the course of southern political life from the predominantly optimistic, nationalistic Jeffersonian era to the sullenly sectional, chronically defensive decades following the Civil War. Politics, as the clearest reflection of the southern electorate's collective hopes and fears, illustra
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