Format:
1 online resource (298 pages)
ISBN:
9780199840960
Content:
Bringing together original scholarly essays, The Old South's Modern Worlds deprovincializes the antebellum South, revealing a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex modern developments that were transforming the nineteenth-century world.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Reimagining the Old South -- Part I: The South in a World of Nations -- 1. Antebellum Southerners and the National Idea -- 2. A World Safe for Modernity: Antebellum Southern Proslavery Intellectuals Confront Great Britain -- 3. The Burdens and Opportunities of Interdependence: The Political Economies of the Planter Class -- Part II: Slavery in a Modernizing Society -- 4. "A Disposition to Work": Rural Enslaved Laborers on the Eve of the Civil War -- 5. Rethinking the Slave Trade: Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South -- 6. The Pregnant Economies of the Border South, 1840-1860: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Possibilities of Slave-Labor Expansion -- Part III : Material Progress and Its Discontents -- 7. The Southern Path to Modern Cities: Urbanization in the Slave States -- 8. "Swerve Me?": The South, Railroads, and the Rush to Modernity -- 9. Industry and Its Laborers, Free and Slave in Late-Antebellum Virginia -- Part IV : The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture -- 10. Zion in Black and White: African-American Evangelicals and Missionary Work in the Old South -- 11. The Return of the Native: Innovative Traditions in the Southeast -- 12. Sex, Self, and the Performance of Patriarchal Manhood in the Old South -- Part V : The Long View of the Old South -- 13. Counterpoint: What If Genovese Is Right?: The Premodern Outlook of Southern Planters -- 14. The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage -- Afterword -- Conclusion: The Future of the Old South -- Index.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Reimagining the Old South; Part I: The South in a World of Nations; Part II: Slavery in a Modernizing Society; Part III: Material Progress and Its Discontents; Part IV: The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture; Part V: The Long View of the Old South; Afterword; Conclusion: The Future of the Old South; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195384017
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195384017
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The Old South's modern worlds Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 0195384016
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195384024
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195384017
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195384024
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Modernisierung
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Wirtschaft
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Sklaverei
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel
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Geschichte 1800-1861
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Aufsatzsammlung
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