The Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195384024 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Diane Barnes is Associate Professor of History at Youngtown State University, associate editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers, and author of Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865. L. Frank Towers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary and author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War.. Brian Schoen is
The turmoil that changes in Asian and European agriculture wrought among southern staple producers shows the interconnections between seemingly isolated southern farms and markets in distant lands. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. Though situated within distinct communities, Southerners'-white, black, and red-participated in and responded to movements global in scope and transformative in effect. Considered as proponents of American manifest destiny, for example, antebellum southern politicians look more like nationalists and less like separatists. The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-with cultural and material markers of modernity such as moral reform, cities, and industry. Deprovincializing the antebellum South, The Old South's Modern Worlds illuminates a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex transformations of the nineteenth-century world.
Engaging, insightful and provocative, these essays will become a familiar landmark in the historiography of the South."-John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara. Absolutely ideal for teaching purposes." --American Nineteenth Century History"Students and specialists alike will find this collection extraordinarily helpful in placing the Old South within the modernizing world of the nineteenth century. "This is a volume of insight, learning, and intellectual verve, sure to spark wide discussion." --Journal of American History"A provocative collection of original essays." --<
Good collection A thoughtful collection of essays concerning the American South's relationship to modernity. While not something I would assign to undergrads or a general audience, for academics it provides a very good overview of where Southern historiography currently stands. I'd recommend it.