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020			_a9781139058421 (ebook)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aE480.5 _b.L44 2014
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100	1		_aLee, Susanna Michele, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aClaiming the Union : _bCitizenship in the Post-Civil War South / _cSusanna Michele Lee.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (270 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
490	0		_aCambridge Studies on the American South
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
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
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37062 _d37062