Manners And Southern History

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628469639

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Manners and Southern History by Ted Ownby Pdf

Contributions by Catherine Clinton, Joseph Crespino, Jane Dailey, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Anya Jabour, John F. Kasson, Jennifer Ritterhouse, and Charles F. Robinson II The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil rights movement understood manners. Contributors write about race, gender, power, and change. Essays analyze the ways southern white women worried about how to manage anger during the Civil War, the complexities of trying to enforce certain codes of behavior under segregation, and the controversy of college women's dating lives in the raucous 1920s. Writers study the background and meaning of Mardi Gras parades and debutante balls, the selective enforcement of anti-miscegenation laws, and arguments over the form that opposition to desegregation should take. Concluding essays by Jane Dailey and John F. Kasson summarize and critique the other articles and offer a broader picture of the role that manners played in the social history of the South.

Author : Allison Kim Shutt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465205

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Manners Make a Nation by Allison Kim Shutt Pdf

This book tells the story of how people struggled to define, reform, and overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics. Underlying what appears to be a static history of racial etiquette is a dynamic narrative of anxieties over racial, gender, and generational status. From the outlawing of "insolence" toward officials to a last-ditch "courtesy campaign" in the early 1960s, white elites believed that their nimble use of racial etiquette would contain Africans' desire for social and political change. In turn, Africans mobilized around stories of racial humiliation. Allison Shutt's research provides a microhistory of the changing discourse about manners and respectability in Southern Rhodesia that by the 1950s had become central to fiercely contested political positions and nationalist tactics. Intense debates among Africans and whites alike over the deployment of courtesy and rudeness reveal the social-emotional tensions that contributed to political mobilization on the part of nationalists and the narrowing of options for the course of white politics. Drawing on public records, legal documents, and firsthand accounts, this first book-length history of manners in twentieth-century colonial Africa provides a compelling new model for understanding politics and culture through the prism of etiquette. Allison K. Shutt is professor of history at Hendrix College.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616704

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice. The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition. They address such matters as myths and memories surrounding the Old South and the Civil War; stereotypes and traditions related to the body, sexuality, gender, and family (such as debutante balls and beauty pageants); institutions and places associated with historical memory (such as cemeteries, monuments, and museums); and specific subjects and objects of myths, including the Confederate flag and Graceland. Together, they offer a compelling portrait of the "southern way of life" as it has been imagined, lived, and contested.

Author : Southern Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : UIUC:30112004078033

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Southern Historical Society Papers by Southern Historical Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11549238

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Southern Historical Society papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Judson Stuart Landon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : UCAL:$B22424

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The Constitutional History and Government of the United States by Judson Stuart Landon Pdf

Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439169810

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Guest of Honor by Deborah Davis Pdf

Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.

Author : C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195125573

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Bowing to Necessities by C. Dallett Hemphill Pdf

"Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out - and thus reinforce - power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. C. Dallett Hemphill also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ted Ownby,Becca Walton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496829528

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Clothing and Fashion in Southern History by Ted Ownby,Becca Walton Pdf

Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones Weicksel Fashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used in the study of southern history have gaps and silences. Yet, little study has been given to the approach of clothing as something made, worn, and intimately experienced by enslaved people, incarcerated people, and the poor and working class, and by subcultures perceived as transgressive. The essays in the volume, using clothing as a point of departure, encourage readers to imagine the South’s centuries-long engagement with a global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved or poorly paid workers, milled in distant factories, designed with influence from cosmopolitan tastemakers, and sold back in the South, often by immigrant merchants. Contributors explore such topics as how free and enslaved women with few or no legal rights claimed to own clothing in the mid-1800s, how white women in the Confederacy claimed the making of clothing as a form of patriotism, how imprisoned men and women made and imagined their clothing, and clothing cooperatives in civil rights–era Mississippi. An introduction by editors Ted Ownby and Becca Walton asks how best to begin studying clothing and fashion in southern history, and an afterword by Jonathan Prude asks how best to conclude.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0807856924

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Myth, Manners, and Memory by Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory

Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199771103

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The Oxford Companion to United States History by Paul S. Boyer Pdf

Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government. A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.

Author : Southern Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : MSU:31293103830489

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Southern Historical Society Papers by Southern Historical Society Pdf

Author : Thomas Ærvold Bjerre,Beata Zawadka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443869881

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The Scourges of the South? Essays on “The Sickly South” in History, Literature, and Popular Culture by Thomas Ærvold Bjerre,Beata Zawadka Pdf

In this book, eleven scholars “take their stand” on the controversial issue of disease as it occurs in the context of the American South. Playing on the popular vision of the South as an ill region on several levels, the European and American contributors interpret various aspects of the regional “sickly” culture as not so much southern “problems”, but, rather, southern opportunities, or else, springboards to yet another of the South’s cultural revitalizations, “health”. As Thomas Ærvold Bjerre and Beata Zawadka note in their introduction, the so-called “Healthy South” has never been an easy topic for scholars dealing with the region. One reason for this is that researchers have been taught to approach so formulated a topic no further than to the point when it turns out it is a contradiction in terms, and, indeed, there is much in southern history and the present situation that justifies such an approach. This volume, however, comprises a collective effort of southernist historians, literature experts, and culture critics to transcend the “contradictory” concept of the “Healthy South,” and does so by reinventing the notion of the southern disease and, consequently, the role of the South as a “scourge” in American culture in terms of this culture’s bountiful gift.

Author : Southern Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090078478

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Papers by Southern Historical Society Pdf

Author : Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015012346816

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Random Shots and Southern Breezes by Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro Pdf