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Author : Gavin Wright
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807120987

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In this provocative and intricate analysis of the postbellum southern economy, Gavin Wright finds in the South’s peculiar labor market the answer to the perennial question of why the region remained backward for so long. After the Civil War, Wright explains, the South continued to be a low-wage regional market embedded in a high-wage national economy. He vividly details the origins, workings, and ultimate demise of that distinct system. The post-World War II southern economy, which created today’s Sunbelt, Wright shows, is not the result of the evolution of the old system, but the product of a revolution brought on by the New Deal and World War II that shattered the South’s stagnant structure and created a genuinely new, thriving order.

Author : Irvin D. S. Winsboro
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :

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Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement exposes the image, illusion, and reality behind Florida's hidden story of racial discrimination and violence. By exploring multiple perspectives on racially motivated events, such as black agency, political stonewalling, and racist assaults, this collection of nine essays reconceptualizes the civil rights legacy of the Sunshine State.

Author : William E. Dodd
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494089924

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This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.

Author : Edward E. Baptist
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0807860034

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Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South. Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern states began settling the land that became Jackson and Leon Counties. Slaves, torn from family and community, were forced to carve plantations from the woods of Middle Florida, while planters and less wealthy white men battled over the social, political, and economic institutions of their new society. Conflict between white men became full-scale crisis in the 1840s, but when sectional conflict seemed to threaten slavery, the whites of Middle Florida found common ground. In politics and everyday encounters, they enshrined the ideal of white male equality--and black inequality. To mask their painful memories of crisis, the planter elite told themselves that their society had been transplanted from older states without conflict. But this myth of an "Old," changeless South only papered over the struggles that transformed slave society in the course of its expansion. In fact, that myth continues to shroud from our view the plantation frontier, the very engine of conflict that had led to the myth's creation.

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781570036781

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Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by the leading historian of African American slavery of the first half of the twentieth century. Life and Labor in the Old South represents both the strengths and weaknesses of first-rate scholarship by whites on the topics of antebellum African and African American slavery during the Jim Crow era. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully written, Phillips's germinal account set the standard for his contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism, racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives. Such contradictions between its content and viewpoint have earned Life and Labor in the Old South its place at the forefront of texts in the historiography of the antebellum South and African American slavery. The book is both a work of high scholarship and an example of the power of unexamined prejudices to affect such a work.

Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195042429

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Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a Jefferson Davis Memorial Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J, Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites—both slaveholders and non-slaveholders—applied it to their lives. Wyatt-Brown ranges widely—covering topics such as childbearing, marital patterns, duelling, slave discipline, and lynch-law—to discover the role of honor in the psyche of white Southerners.

Author : E. Merton Coulter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820331996

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Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered state university, the author recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the days when the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies ruled the campus; and the vast commencement crowds that overwhelmed Athens to feast on oratory and watermelons.

Author : R. Gordon Thornton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2008-12-05
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ISBN : 9781589806733

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The definitive primer on Southern nationalism. The South has a right to nationhood, separate from the rest of the United States.This book explores how to preserve the social, religious, political, and cultural traditions of the Southern people.

Author : Alan Gallay
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820315664

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Eyewitness accounts intended to introduce readers to a wide variety of primary literary sources for studying the Old South.

Author : Aaron W. Marrs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0801891302

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Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. -- Dr. Owen Brown and Dr. Gale E. Gibson