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Gruesome Looking Objects
A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
Häftad, 2026
351 kr
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The 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects associated with the lynching, including newspaper articles, fragments of the victims' clothing, …
Mastering America
Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Mastering America recounts efforts of 'proslavery nationalists' to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission in overtly proslavery terms. At the heart of this study are spokesmen of the Southern 'Master …
Mastering America
Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood
Inbunden, 2009
787 kr
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Mastering America recounts efforts of 'proslavery nationalists' to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission in overtly proslavery terms. At the heart of this study are spokesmen of the Southern 'Master …
The Merchants' Capital
New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South
Inbunden, 2013
1341 kr
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As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a …
Old Age and American Slavery
Inbunden, 2023
444 kr
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Old Age and American Slavery explores how antebellum southerners, Black and white, adapted to, resisted, or failed to overcome changes associated with old age, both real and imagined. Slavery was a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, both of which were …
Old Age and American Slavery
Häftad, 2026
435 kr
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Old Age and American Slavery explores how antebellum southerners, Black and white, adapted to, resisted, or failed to overcome changes associated with old age, both real and imagined. Slavery was a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, both of which were …
Gendering Secession
White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859–1861
Inbunden, 2025
860 kr
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Gendering Secession explores the lives and politics of South Carolina's elite white women from 1859 to 1861. The political drama that unfolded during the secession crisis of 1860 has long captured our attention, but scant regard has been paid to the secessionist women themselves. These women were …
Understanding the American South
Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century
Häftad, 2024
361 kr
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Americans in the twenty-first century find themselves searching for new understandings of their history. They seek explanations for chronic political polarization, acute pandemic polarization, social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming and armed global conflict, widening …
Understanding the American South
Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century
Inbunden, 2024
1190 kr
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Americans in the twenty-first century find themselves searching for new understandings of their history. They seek explanations for chronic political polarization, acute pandemic polarization, social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming and armed global conflict, widening …
Cooking for the Quarters
Enslaved Women and the Labor of Care in the Antebellum South
Av Emily West
Häftad, 2026
448 kr
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Women who prepared food for enslaved people, rather than enslavers, have been neglected in historical scholarship. Their labor within the quarters has been marginalized, belittled, and even ignored, because it fell within the remit of gendered care and nurture. In this book, Emily West illustrates …
Cooking for the Quarters
Enslaved Women and the Labor of Care in the Antebellum South
Av Emily West
Inbunden, 2026
1526 kr
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Women who prepared food for enslaved people, rather than enslavers, have been neglected in historical scholarship. Their labor within the quarters has been marginalized, belittled, and even ignored, because it fell within the remit of gendered care and nurture. In this book, Emily West illustrates …
Carolinian Crucible
Reforging Class, Family, and Nation in Confederate South Carolina
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Carolinian Crucible tells the story of South Carolina - particularly its upcountry region - at war. A state notorious for its political radicalism before the Civil War, this book avoids caricaturing the Palmetto State's inhabitants as unflinching Confederate zealots, and instead provides a more …
Camp Ford's Civil War
Captivity, Community, and Nature in the Dark Corner of the Confederacy
Häftad, 2026
346 kr
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Camp Ford's Civil War tells the story of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians, enslaved people and refugees, and the natural world around them during the Civil War. The focal point is a ten-acre piece of land where over 5,000 Union prisoners of war sat out of battle while fighting their own …
Camp Ford's Civil War
Captivity, Community, and Nature in the Dark Corner of the Confederacy
Inbunden, 2026
1485 kr
Kommande
Camp Ford's Civil War tells the story of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians, enslaved people and refugees, and the natural world around them during the Civil War. The focal point is a ten-acre piece of land where over 5,000 Union prisoners of war sat out of battle while fighting their own …
Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880
Inbunden, 2014
1358 kr
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This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The …
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
Inbunden, 2011
1442 kr
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On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on …
Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South
Inbunden, 2011
1366 kr
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The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern intellectual life, the fight for women's rights and gender ideology. Based on new research into Southern magazines and newspapers, this book …
Freedom in a Slave Society
Stories from the Antebellum South
Inbunden, 2012
1526 kr
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Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we …
Claiming the Union
Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South
Inbunden, 2014
1341 kr
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This 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 …
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion
Inbunden, 2012
972 kr
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Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes the persistent influence of the …
Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood
Av Brian Steele
Inbunden, 2012
1411 kr
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This book emphasises the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project sought the alignment of the American state system with the will and character of the nation. Jefferson believed that America was the …
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Inbunden, 2012
1677 kr
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African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the …
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South
Inbunden, 2014
1391 kr
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American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding southwest, scattered locally, and sold or hired out in towns and cities across the South. This book sheds new light on domestic …
Civil War and Agrarian Unrest
The Confederate South and Southern Italy
Inbunden, 2018
1017 kr
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Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, in the midst of civil wars. This is the first book that compares these parallel developments by …
Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress
The Morality of a Slaveholder
Av Ari Helo
Inbunden, 2013
1375 kr
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Could Jefferson claim any consistency in his advocacy of democracy and the rights of man while remaining one of the largest slaveholders in Virginia? This extensive study of Jefferson's intellectual outlook suggests that, once we fully acknowledge the premises of his ethical thought and his now …
Beyond the Rope
The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory
Inbunden, 2016
1458 kr
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Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically framed as victims of white lynch mob …
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange
Power's Purchase in the Old South
Inbunden, 2013
1423 kr
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This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest …
Cultivating Success in the South
Farm Households in the Postbellum Era
Av Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Inbunden, 2014
1643 kr
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This book explores changes in rural households of the Georgia Piedmont through the material culture of farmers as they transitioned from self-sufficiency to market dependence. The period between 1880 and 1910 was a time of dynamic change when Southern farmers struggled to reinvent their lives and …
Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier
Inbunden, 2015
1492 kr
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This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern …
The Georgia Peach
Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South
Inbunden, 2016
549 kr
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Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easily Georgia's most visible symbol. Yet Prunus persica itself is surprisingly rare in Georgia, and it has never been central to the southern …
