New Perspectives on the History of the South – serie
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Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Häftad, 2002
280 kr
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A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, The Southern Dream remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico, and Central America in particular - before the Civil War. Robert May shows that the South's expansionists had no more …
Ticket to Freedom
The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration
Av Manfred Berg
Häftad, 2007
303 kr
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Focusing on the NAACP's campaign for voting rights, Manfred Berg challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a resourceful, dynamic, and politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to greater black participation.
Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina, 1900-1930
Häftad, 2011
312 kr
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Historical treatments of race during the early twentieth century have generally focused on black women's activism. Leading books about the disenfranchisement era hint that black men withdrew from positions of community leadership until later in the century.Angela Hornsby-Gutting argues that …
Counterfeit Gentlemen
Manhood and Humor in the Old South
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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Counterfeit Gentlemen is a stunning reappraisal of Southern manhood and identity that uses humor and humorists to carry the reader into the very heart of antebellum culture.What does it mean to be a man in the pre-Civil War South? And how can we answer the question from the perspective of the early …
Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold
Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina
Inbunden, 2014
819 kr
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A finely layered and important study that fills in gaps in the industrial history of the New South and especially low-country South Carolina.--Sidney Bland, author of Preserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future: The Life and Times of Susan Pringle Frost Skillfully blurs the old, comfortable …
Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World
Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937–1955
Häftad, 2019
283 kr
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The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues during the Great Depression. They fought within a leftist, Pan-African framework against disenfranchisement, segregation, …
Rosenwald Schools of the American South
Häftad, 2014
370 kr
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Hoffschwelle tells the story of a remarkable partnership to build model schools for black children during the Jim Crow era in the South. The Rosenwald programme, which erected more than 5,300 schools and auxiliary buildings between 1912 and 1932, began with Booker T. Washington, then principal of …
Ain't Scared of Your Jail
Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
Häftad, 2014
210 kr
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In this book, Zoe Colley follows civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prisons to explore their treatment and the different responses that civil rights organizations had to mass arrest and imprisonment. While some found imprisonment to be an energizing or inspiring experience and …
After Slavery
Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
Av Bruce E. Baker, Brian Kelly
Häftad, 2014
283 kr
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In the popular imagination, freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation or, at the very least, at the conclusion of the Civil War. In reality, the anxiety felt by newly freed slaves and their allies …
Painting Dixie Red
When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican
Häftad, 2014
345 kr
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Has the South, once the ""Solid South"" of the Democratic Party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, when, where, why, and how did this seismic change occur? Moreover, what are the implications for the U.S. body politic?Painting Dixie Red is the first volume to grapple with …
Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold
Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina
Häftad, 2017
254 kr
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In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.Fueling the rapid growth of lowcountry …
From Rights to Economics
The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South
Häftad, 2025
297 kr
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Examining the African American stuggle for economic parity in the South after the 1960sRich with the voices of Black and white southern workers, From Rights to Economics shows how African Americans have continued fighting for economic parity in the decades since the civil rights legislation of the …
Dreams and Nightmares
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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Comparing the lives and goals of two icons of Black resistanceOne man dreamed of a country united in true racial equality. Another saw this as a nightmare that served only the interest of wealthy white people. Both were sons of Baptist ministers. Both grew up to be icons of the civil rights …
In the Country of the Enemy
The Civil War Reports of a Massachusetts Corporal
Inbunden, 1999
352 kr
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Corporal Zenas T. Haines's dispatches from the Civil War in eastern North Carolina provide a detailed account of the history of a Massachusetts regiment operating in the hostile southern coastal lowlands during the winter of 1862-1863.
Wild East
A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains
Inbunden, 2001
754 kr
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This volume explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author concludes that this national park, a large forested region in the eastern United States, is actually a re-created wilderness.
Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph
Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities
Av University Press of Florida
Inbunden, 2003
697 kr
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Spanning southern women's history from colonial times to the late-20th century, this collection discusses the lives and experiences of black and white southern women. It shows how they moved beyond the confines of race, class and gender to resist the restrictions of a patriarchal society.
German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867
Av University Press of Florida
Inbunden, 2003
639 kr
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Exploring the motivations of German-speaking immigrants in the US Colored Troops (USCT), this book looks at the sometimes hostile, sometimes sympathetic reactions of their comrades and enemies in the conflict.
Honor in Command
Lt. Freeman S. Bowley's Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry
Av Freeman S. Bowley, Keith P. Wilson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
467 kr
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This memoir by Freeman Sparks Bowley, a young white officer who served as a lieutenant in a regiment of U.S. Colored Troops in the Union Army, is the work of a superb storyteller who describes how his Civil War experiences transformed him from a callow youth into an honorable man. Describing in …
T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928
Av T. Thomas Fortune, Shawn Leigh Alexander
Inbunden, 2008
754 kr
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Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism by the time of his death in the early twentieth century. The editorship of three prominent black newspapers - the ""New York Globe"", ""Freeman"", and ""Age"" - provided Fortune with a platform to speak …
Francis Butler Simkins
A Life
Inbunden, 2008
837 kr
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Few men make their mark in their profession as indelibly as historian Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966). Known as an eccentric, Simkins is almost as famous for falling asleep while performing his ceremonial duties as president-elect of the Southern Historical Association as he is for his wildly …
Southern Mind Under Union Rule
The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862-1865
Häftad, 2011
223 kr
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Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World
Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955
Inbunden, 2014
812 kr
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By examining the development of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs two early civil rights organisations that have been overlooked and marginalised by the historiography of the period Lindsey Swindall reveals how the discourse on civil rights in the southern United …
