Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 392 pages)
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maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0748613765
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0748628266
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1280953101
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9780748613762
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9780748628261
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9781280953101
Inhalt:
The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights revolution of the twentieth century. While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and white, the authors
Inhalt:
COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; MAPS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 RED, WHITE AND BLACK? NATIVE AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS MEET IN THE CHESAPEAKE; Chapter 2 SYSTEMATISING SLAVERY: THE MAKING OF THE PLANTATION SYSTEM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Chapter 3 SLAVERY, RACE AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Chapter 4 A WHITE MAN'S REPUBLIC IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH; Chapter 5 THE PARADOXICAL INSTITUTION: ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY; Chapter 6 A FRAGILE FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF SLAVERY; Chapter 7 'THE WHITE SUPREME': RACE RELATIONS IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-374) and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780748613755
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brown, David Race in the American south Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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