Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History – serie
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Civil War in the Making, 1815-1860
Häftad, 1968
268 kr
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American scholarship is richer for this unique exercise. More important, the great community, . . . one again sorely beset by unsettled problems of sectional rivalry and world tension, can read this book with great profit. Too few historians put their talents at the disposal of society so …
Southern Odyssey
Travelers in the Antebellum North
Häftad, 1979
417 kr
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Frederick Law Olmsted, the northerner who wrote comprehensively about his travels in the South, had no southern counterpart. But there were thousands of southerners - planters, merchants, bankers, students, housewives, writers, and politicians - who traveled extensively in the North and who …
Plain Folk of the Old South
Häftad, 1982
283 kr
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First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials, firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published …
Thinking Back
The Perils of Writing History
Häftad, 1987
291 kr
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In a career that has spanned more than half a century, C Vann Woodward has come to be regarded as one of the foremost historians of the United States. His writings on the South - particularly on the period of the New South - have inspired the admiration and awe of more than a generation of …
Creation of Confederate Nationalism
Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South
Häftad, 1989
225 kr
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For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology. In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, …
Legacy of Andrew Jackson
Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal, and Slavery
Häftad, 1990
225 kr
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Robert V. Remini, the nation's foremost authority on Andrew Jackson, has over the past three decades published numerous books on Jackson and his presidency, including a much-praised three-volume biography. His mastery of sources and singular diligence in advancing a revised image of Jackson are …
From Rebellion to Revolution
Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
Häftad, 1992
283 kr
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In one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favoured these revolts and the history of slave guerrilla …
Lincoln, the South, and Slavery
The Political Dimension
Häftad, 1993
283 kr
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In 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared his hatred for the institution of slavery, likening his feelings of opposition to those of the abolitionists. Although the fact that Lincoln always disliked slavery is indisputable, the idea that he always opposed it with the zeal and fervor of the abolitionists …
Indians' New South
Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast
Av James Axtell
Häftad, 1997
283 kr
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In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and …
Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy
Av Charles W. Ramsdell, Wendell Holmes Stephenson
Häftad, 1997
268 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, Charles W. Ramsdell explores the causes of the South's defeat in the Civil War. Finding traditional military explanations insufficient, he argues that deficiencies on the homefront were fundamental to the collapse of the Confederacy.According to Ramsdell, the war …
From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich
Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994
Häftad, 1999
275 kr
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Carter's essays present graphic evidence of the extent to which race continues to matter in American politics. - Journal of Southern HistoryIn this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan T. Carter examines race as an issue in presidential politics. Drawing on his broad knowledge of …
Olive Branch and Sword
The Compromise of 1833
Häftad, 1999
283 kr
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Dominated by the personalities of three towering figures of the nation's middle period - Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and President Andrew Jackson - Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 tells of the political and rhetorical dueling that brought about the Compromise of 1833, resolving the …
Sphinx on the American Land
The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective
Inbunden, 2003
294 kr
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One reason that the South attracts so much interest is that its history inevitably involves big questions, continuity versus change, slavery and freedom, the meaning of ""race,"" the formation of national identity, the struggle between local and centralized authority. Because these issues are …
Nothing but Freedom
Emancipation and Its Legacy
Av Eric Foner
Häftad, 2007
283 kr
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Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative …
Plain Folk of the Old South
Häftad, 2008
395 kr
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First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials, firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published …
Slavery and American Economic Development
Av Gavin Wright
Häftad, 2013
283 kr
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Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organisation, the aspect that has dominated historical debates, and …
Dixie Bohemia
A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
Häftad, 2014
332 kr
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In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colourful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William …
Jefferson and the Virginians
Democracy, Constitutions, and Empire
Av Peter Onuf
Inbunden, 2018
467 kr
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In Jefferson and the Virginians, renowned scholar Peter S. Onuf examines the ways in which Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Virginians, George Washington, James Madison, and Patrick Henry, both conceptualized their home state from a political and cultural perspective, and understood its position in …
Stepdaughters of History
Southern Women and the American Civil War
Häftad, 2021
283 kr
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In Stepdaughters of History, noted scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation. Clinton contends that despite the recent attention, white and …
Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History
Inbunden, 2023
352 kr
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Though long neglected, the history and experiences of Indigenous women offer a deeper, more complex understanding of southern history and culture. In Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History, Daniel H. Usner explores the dynamic role of Native American women in the South as they …
But Now I See
The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative
Av Fred Hobson
Häftad, 1999
377 kr
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The term ""conversion narrative"" usually refers to a particular form of expression that arose in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century. In that sense, the purely religious, the conversion narrative belongs to a rather remote history. But in this lucid, pathbreaking work, Fred Hobson uses …
Hearts of Darkness
Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition
Häftad, 2002
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From Edgar Allan Poe's ""dark forebodings"" to Kate Chopin's lifelong struggle with sorrow and loss, depression has shadowed southern letters. This beautifully realised study explores the defining role of melancholy in southern literature from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth, …
Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom
Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2007
294 kr
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It is beyond dispute that slavery has always been abhorrent and, wherever it still exists, should be abolished. Where most scholarly writing on slavery in the past has concentrated on examining slaves as victims, recent writings have taken a more nuanced view of slavery in focusing on the slaves …
Toxic Drift
Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South
Av Pete Daniel
Häftad, 2007
328 kr
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Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market. In Toxic Drift, Daniel documents the …
White House Looks South
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson
Häftad, 2007
453 kr
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Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political …
Southern Political Tradition
Inbunden, 2012
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In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the 1820s to the 1960s. Drawing on his extensive …
Southern Political Tradition
Häftad, 2012
280 kr
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In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the 1820s to the 1960s. Drawing on his extensive …
Dixie Bohemia
A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
Inbunden, 2012
582 kr
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In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colourful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William …
Damn Yankees!
Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South
Inbunden, 2015
467 kr
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During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a …
Stepdaughters of History
Southern Women and the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2016
352 kr
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In Stepdaughters of History, noted scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation. Clinton contends that despite the recent attention, white and …
