New Studies in Southern History – serie
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20 produkter
Race, Gender, and Film Censorship in Virginia, 1922–1965
Inbunden, 2014
1345 kr
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This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. At its most basic level, it analyzes the project of state film censorship in Virginia. It uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political, …
Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924
Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality
Häftad, 2016
631 kr
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Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels, and feuds. However, the years following Reconstruction witnessed the creation of new forms of mob violence. All across the state, gangs of whites …
Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South
The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940
Inbunden, 2015
1385 kr
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Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of …
Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South
The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940
Häftad, 2017
645 kr
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Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of …
George Galphin and the Transformation of the Georgia–South Carolina Backcountry
Inbunden, 2014
1458 kr
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The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin), who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis of this work is that his life and career helped to shape the history of the backcountry of Georgia …
George Galphin and the Transformation of the Georgia–South Carolina Backcountry
Häftad, 2016
805 kr
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The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin), who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis of this work is that his life and career helped to shape the history of the backcountry of Georgia …
Federal Theatre Project in the American South
The Carolina Playmakers and the Quest for American Drama
Häftad, 2018
587 kr
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The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935, she envisioned a national theatre comprised of …
Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory
History of Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue, 1948–1996
Häftad, 2017
631 kr
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In Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee explores the long history of Richmond, Virginia’s iconic Monument Avenue. As a network of important memorials to Confederate leaders located in the former capitol of the Confederacy, Monument Avenue has long been central to the …
Setting Slavery's Limits
Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801–1860
Häftad, 2022
529 kr
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Using slave trials from antebellum Virginia, Christopher H. Bouton offers the first in-depth examination of physical confrontations between slaves and whites. These extraordinary acts of violence brought the ordinary concerns of enslaved Virginians into focus. Enslaved men violently asserted their …
Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898–1963
Inbunden, 2019
1240 kr
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Using the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville Public Libraries as case studies, The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963 argues that public libraries played an integral role in Southern cities’ economic and cultural boosterism efforts …
Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898–1963
Häftad, 2023
471 kr
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Using the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville Public Libraries as case studies, The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963 argues that public libraries played an integral role in Southern cities’ economic and cultural boosterism efforts …
Backcountry Slave Trader
William James Smith's Enterprise, 1844–1854
Av Philip Noel Racine, Frances Melton Racine
Häftad, 2021
529 kr
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Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith, a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his business ledger and his correspondence were of unusual specificity. The authors’ analyze these entries and his correspondence, which they argue provide details about …
African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom
Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Av Ashley Towle
Inbunden, 2022
1168 kr
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This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil War and emancipation. During and after the war, African Americans died in vast numbers from battle, disease, and racial violence. While freedom was a momentous event …
Cherokee Odyssey
The Journey from Sovereign to "Civilized"
Inbunden, 2022
1240 kr
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This study examines the period between 1730 to 1790, which saw the Cherokee people travel the path from a sovereign people allied with the British to a dependent nation signed by treaty to the American Civilization program with US government. The author analyzes how, in between, the Cherokees …
Cherokee Odyssey
The Journey from Sovereign to "Civilized"
Häftad, 2025
442 kr
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This study examines the period between 1730 to 1790, which saw the Cherokee people travel the path from a sovereign people allied with the British to a dependent nation signed by treaty to the American Civilization program with US government. The author analyzes how, in between, the Cherokees …
Conservative Americanism
Nativism, Unionism, and Slavery in Border South Politics, 1854–1861
Inbunden, 2024
1458 kr
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Conservative Americanism: Nativism, Unionism, and Slavery in Border South Politics, 1854-1861 explores the rise of Conservative Americanism—an ideology that linked the worsening sectional crisis of the 1850s to the country's growing immigrant population—among former Whigs in the Border South. Jesse …
James McDowell of Virginia
The Perils of an Antebellum Southern Reformer
Inbunden, 2023
1168 kr
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This biography examines the political journey of James McDowell, a Democratic governor from western Virginia during the Jacksonian Era. The journey was shaped by the crosscurrents of a national debate over slavery, democratic advances, and the Jackson’s controversial agenda.A progressive, he joined …
Slavery, Race, and Catholic Evangelization in Charleston, 1566–1964
Inbunden, 2090
1300 kr
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Suzanne Krebsbach provides a history of the first five bishops of Charleston and how they handled slavery and ministry to majority African American communities after emancipation. She examines John England, Patrick Lynch, Ignatius Reynolds, Williams Russell, and Henry P. Northurp’s contributions to …
Mixed-Race Identity in the American South
Roots, Memory, and Family Secrets
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.” The study uses four different texts to explore this non-fictional genre, including …
Mixed-Race Identity in the American South
Roots, Memory, and Family Secrets
Häftad, 2023
526 kr
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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.” The study uses four different texts to explore this non-fictional genre, including …
