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The American South in a Global World

James L. Peacock,Harry L. Watson,Carrie R. Matthews
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Author : James L. Peacock,Harry L. Watson,Carrie R. Matthews
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807876466

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The American South in a Global World by James L. Peacock,Harry L. Watson,Carrie R. Matthews Pdf

Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicity, and organizing for social justice; and the assimilation of foreign-born professionals. From portraits of the political and economic positions of Latinos in Miami and Houston to the effects of mountaintop removal on West Virginia communities, these snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being reshaped by globalization in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Catherine Brooks, Morristown, New Jersey David H. Ciscel, University of Memphis Thaddeus Countway Guldbrandsen, University of New Hampshire Carla Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder Sawa Kurotani, University of Redlands (Redlands, Cal.) Paul A. Levengood, Virginia Historical Society Carrie R. Matthews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bryan McNeil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Marcela Mendoza, University of Memphis Donald M. Nonini, University of Toronto James L. Peacock, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Barbara Ellen Smith, University of Memphis Jennie M. Smith, Berry College (Mount Berry, Ga.) Sandy Smith-Nonini, University of Toronto Ellen Griffith Spears, Emory University Gregory Stephens, University of West Indies-Mona Steve Striffler, University of Arkansas Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University Meenu Tewari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lucila Vargas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Harry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rachel A. Willis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American South

William J. Cooper, Jr.,Thomas E. Terrill
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Author : William J. Cooper, Jr.,Thomas E. Terrill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742564503

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The American South by William J. Cooper, Jr.,Thomas E. Terrill Pdf

In The American South, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the south from the history of the United States. Each volume includes a substantial biographical essay—completely updated for this edition—which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. Coverage now includes the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, up-to-date analysis of the persistent racial divisions in the region, and the South's unanticipated role in the 2008 presidential primaries.

Religion in the American South

Beth Barton Schweiger,Donald G. Mathews
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Author : Beth Barton Schweiger,Donald G. Mathews
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875971

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Religion in the American South by Beth Barton Schweiger,Donald G. Mathews Pdf

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation of scholarship to push scholarly conversation about the field to a new level of sophistication by complicating "southern religion" geographically, chronologically, and thematically and by challenging the interpretive hegemony of the "Bible belt." Contributors demonstrate the importance of religion in the South not only to American religious history but also to the history of the nation as a whole. They show that religion touched every corner of society--from the nightclub to the lynching tree, from the church sanctuary to the kitchen hearth. These essays will stimulate discussions of a wide variety of subjects, including eighteenth-century religious history, conversion narratives, religion and violence, the cultural power of prayer, the importance of women in exploiting religious contexts in innovative ways, and the interracialism of southern religious history. Contributors: Kurt O. Berends, University of Notre Dame Emily Bingham, Louisville, Kentucky Anthea D. Butler, Loyola Marymount University Paul Harvey, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Jerma Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lynn Lyerly, Boston College Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jon F. Sensbach, University of Florida Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas Daniel Woods, Ferrum College

The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941

Michael O'Brien
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Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421433639

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The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 by Michael O'Brien Pdf

Originally published in 1979. The idea of the "South" has its roots in Romanticism and American culture of the nineteenth century. This study by Michael O'Brien analyzes how the idea of a unique Southern consciousness endured into the twentieth century and how it affected the lives of prominent white Southern intellectuals. Individual chapters treat Howard Odum, John Donald Wade, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Frank Owsley, and Donald Davidson. The chapters trace each man's growing need for the idea of the South—how each defined it and how far each was able to sustain the idea as an element of social analysis. The Idea of the American South moves the debate over Southern identity from speculative essays about the "central theme" of Southern history and, by implication, past the restricted perception that race relations are a sufficient key to understanding the history of Southern identity.

Britain and the American South

Joseph P. Ward
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Author : Joseph P. Ward
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1604732490

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Britain and the American South by Joseph P. Ward Pdf

Essays that track the long interrelationship between Britain and the American South in music, religion, and trade

Environmental History and the American South

Paul Sutter,Christopher J. Manganiello
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Author : Paul Sutter,Christopher J. Manganiello
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820332802

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Environmental History and the American South by Paul Sutter,Christopher J. Manganiello Pdf

This reader gathers fifteen of the most important essays written in the field of southern environmental history over the past decade. Ideal for course use, the volume provides a convenient entrée into the recent literature on the region as it indicates the variety of directions in which the field is growing. As coeditor Paul S. Sutter writes in his introduction, “recent trends in environmental historiography--a renewed emphasis on agricultural landscapes and their hybridity, attention to the social and racial histories of environmental thought and practice, and connections between health and the environment among them--have made the South newly attractive terrain. This volume suggests, then, that southern environmental history has not only arrived but also that it may prove an important space for the growth of the larger environmental history enterprise.” The writings, which range in setting from the Texas plains to the Carolina Lowcountry, address a multiplicity of topics, such as husbandry practices in the Chesapeake colonies and the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. The contributors’ varied disciplinary perspectives--including agricultural history, geography, the history of science, the history of technology, military history, colonial American history, urban and regional planning history, and ethnohistory--also point to the field’s vitality. Conveying the breadth, diversity, and liveliness of this maturing area of study, Environmental History and the American South affirms the critical importance of human-environmental interactions to the history and culture of the region. Contributors: Virginia DeJohn Anderson William Boyd Lisa Brady Joshua Blu Buhs Judith Carney James Taylor Carson Craig E. Colten S. Max Edelson Jack Temple Kirby Ralph H. Lutts Eileen Maura McGurty Ted Steinberg Mart Stewart Claire Strom Paul Sutter Harry Watson Albert G. Way

The Oxford Book of the American South

Edward L. Ayers,Bradley C. Mittendorf
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Author : Edward L. Ayers,Bradley C. Mittendorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195124934

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The Oxford Book of the American South by Edward L. Ayers,Bradley C. Mittendorf Pdf

Gathers short stories, journalism, and excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs by Southern authors.

Atlantic Environments and the American South

Thomas Blake Earle,D. Andrew Johnson
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Author : Thomas Blake Earle,D. Andrew Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820356471

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Atlantic Environments and the American South by Thomas Blake Earle,D. Andrew Johnson Pdf

There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid introduction to this collection of essays that brings these disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery, gender, climate, “colonial ecological revolution,” manipulation of the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation. By centering this project on a region, the American South—defined as the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean— the authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign to Europeans. Challenging the concepts of “Atlantic” and “southern” and their intersection with “environments” is a discipline-defining strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural networks.

Race in the American South

David Brown
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Author : David Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748628261

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Race in the American South by David Brown Pdf

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 show how other forces such as class and gender have complicated the colour line. They distinguish clearly between ideas about race, mostly written and disseminated by intellectuals and politicians, and their reception by ordinary southerners, both black and white. As a result, readers are presented with a broad, over-arching view of race in the American South throughout its chequered history.Key Features:*racial issues are the key area of interest for those who study the American South*race is the driving engine of Southern history*unique in its focus on race*broad coverage - origins of the plantation system to the situation in the South today

The Language of the American South

Cleanth Brooks
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Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820331232

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The Language of the American South by Cleanth Brooks Pdf

In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favored by the gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence, rooted in the dialect of England's southern lowlands, that is still heard in the speech of the region's plain folk. It is this rich spoken language, Brooks suggests, that has always been the life blood of southern writing. The strong tradition of storytelling in the South is reflected in the tales told by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus and in the obsessive retellings that structure William Faulkner's novels and stories. But even more crucially, the language of the South--firmly rooted in the land but with a tendency to reach for the heavens above--has shaped the literary concerns and molded the complex visions to be found in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom; the stories of Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, and Eudora Welty; and the novels of Warren, Allen Tate, and Walker Percy.

The American South in the Twentieth Century

Craig S. Pascoe,Karen Trahan Leathem,Andy Ambrose
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Author : Craig S. Pascoe,Karen Trahan Leathem,Andy Ambrose
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0820327719

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The American South in the Twentieth Century by Craig S. Pascoe,Karen Trahan Leathem,Andy Ambrose Pdf

In the South today, the sight of a Latina in a NASCAR T-shirt behind the register at an Asian grocery would hardly draw a second glance. That scenario, and our likely reaction to it, surely signals something important--but what? Here some of the region’s most respected and readable observers look across the past century to help us take stock of where the South is now and where it may be headed. Reflecting the writers’ deep interests in southern history, politics, literature, religion, and other matters, the essays engage in new ways some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed--or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness? Although the essays touch on an engaging diversity of topics including the USDA’s crop spraying policies, Tom Wolfe’s novel A Man in Full, and collegiate women’s soccer, they ultimately cluster around a common set of themes. These include race, segregation and the fall of Jim Crow, gender, cultural distinctiveness and identity, modernization, education, and urbanization. Mindful of the South’s reputation for insularity, the essays also gauge the impact of federal assistance, relocated industries, immigration, and other outside influences. As one contributor writes, and as all would acknowledge, those who undertake a project like this “should bear in mind that they are tracking a target moving constantly but often erratically.” The rewards of pondering a place as elusive, complex, and contradictory as the American South are on full display here.

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

Lester D. Stephens
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Author : Lester D. Stephens
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861196

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Science, Race, and Religion in the American South by Lester D. Stephens Pdf

In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States--Philadelphia, Boston, and New York--exceeded Charleston in natural history studies, and the city boasted an excellent museum of natural history. Examining the scientific activities and contributions of John Bachman, Edmund Ravenel, John Edwards Holbrook, Lewis R. Gibbes, Francis S. Holmes, and John McCrady, Lester Stephens uncovers the important achievements of Charleston's circle of naturalists in a region that has conventionally been dismissed as largely devoid of scientific interests. Stephens devotes particular attention to the special problems faced by the Charleston naturalists and to the ways in which their religious and racial beliefs interacted with and shaped their scientific pursuits. In the end, he shows, cultural commitments proved stronger than scientific principles. When the South seceded from the Union in 1861, the members of the Charleston circle placed regional patriotism above science and union and supported the Confederate cause. The ensuing war had a devastating impact on the Charleston naturalists--and on science in the South. The Charleston circle never fully recovered from the blow, and a century would elapse before the South took an equal role in the pursuit of mainstream scientific research.

Death and the American South

Craig Thompson Friend,Lorri Glover
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Author : Craig Thompson Friend,Lorri Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107084209

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Death and the American South by Craig Thompson Friend,Lorri Glover Pdf

Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.

Southern Journey

Edward L. Ayers
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Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807173015

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Southern Journey by Edward L. Ayers Pdf

Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the present day by focusing on the settling, unsettling, and resettling of the South. Using migration as the dominant theme of southern history and including indigenous, white, black, and immigrant people in the story, Edward L. Ayers cuts across the usual geographic, thematic, and chronological boundaries that subdivide southern history. Ayers explains the major contours and events of the southern past from a fresh perspective, weaving geography with history in innovative ways. He uses unique color maps created with sophisticated geographic information system (GIS) tools to interpret massive data sets from a humanistic perspective, providing a view of movement within the South with a clarity, detail, and continuity we have not seen before. The South has never stood still; it is—and always has been—changing in deep, radical, sometimes contradictory ways, often in divergent directions. Ayers’s history of migration in the South is a broad yet deep reinterpretation of the region’s past that informs our understanding of the population, economy, politics, and culture of the South today. Southern Journey is not only a pioneering work of history; it is a grand recasting of the South’s past by one of its most renowned and appreciated scholars.

The Routledge History of the American South

Maggi M. Morehouse
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Author : Maggi M. Morehouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317665342

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The Routledge History of the American South by Maggi M. Morehouse Pdf

The Routledge History of the American South looks at the major themes that have developed in the interdisciplinary field of Southern Studies. With fifteen original essays from experts in their respective fields, the handbook addresses such diverse topics as southern linguistics, music (secular and non-secular), gender, food, and history and memory. The chapters present focused historiographical analyses that, taken together, offer a clear sense of the evolution and contours of Southern Studies. This volume is valuable both as a dynamic introduction to Southern Studies and as an entry point into more recent research for those already familiar with the subfield.