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  • - New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South
    af Scott P. (University of Memphis) Marler
    382,95 - 1.052,95 kr.

    New Orleans, the nineteenth-century South's only true metropolis, originally derived its prosperity as the chief export point for slave-produced commodities, most notably cotton. This book focuses on the city's merchants and how their conservative investment mentalities contributed to New Orleans' unusually rapid economic downfall during and after the Civil War.

  • af Elijah Gaddis
    320,95 kr.

    The 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects associated with the lynching, including newspaper articles, fragments of the victims' clothing, photographs, and souvenirs such as sticks from the hanging tree. This material culture approach uncovers how people tried to integrate the meaning of the lynching into their everyday lives through objects. These seemingly ordinary items are repositories for the comprehension, interpretation, and commemoration of racial violence and white supremacy. Elijah Gaddis showcases an approach to objects as materials of history and memory, insisting that we live in a world suffused with the material traces of racial violence, past and present.

  • - Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940
    af Daniel J. (University of Kentucky) Vivian
    474,95 - 682,95 kr.

    Examines the transformation of architecture and landscape involved in the making of 'sporting plantations' in coastal South Carolina by wealthy sporting enthusiasts. Vivian explores the meaning of plantations in American culture, how new sporting estates affected historical memory of slavery, and the consequences for contemporary views of the South Carolina coast and its past.

  • - The Confederate South and Southern Italy
    af Enrico (National University of Ireland Dal Lago
    645,95 kr.

    This is the first book that compares the Confederate South and Southern Italy during 1861-65. Through this comparison, it sheds light on the collapse of the Confederacy as opposed to the survival of the Italian Kingdom by focusing on the activities carried out by anti-Confederate and anti-Italian Southerners.

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    424,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Coming of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina
    af Lawrence T. (Iowa State University) McDonnell
    496,95 - 1.233,95 kr.

    Lawrence T. McDonnell examines how ordinary men took practical steps at ground level to make secession happen in the American South. Using Charleston, South Carolina as the epicenter of his research and analysis, McDonnell examines the Minutemen in historical context, exploring the political and cultural dynamics of their choices.

  • - Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
    af Keri Leigh Merritt
    341,95 - 707,95 kr.

    Owning neither land nor slaves, poor whites comprised about a third of the American South's white population in 1860. Focusing on land, labor, and legal history, Masterless Men shows what happens to excess workers in a slave society.

  • - Burning Sam Hose in the American South
    af Chapel Hill) Mathews & Donald G. (University of North Carolina
    363,95 - 1.086,95 kr.

    Renowned historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the lynching of Sam Hose, framing it as a religious and moral story within the culture of deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South. This book will appeal to those studying southern history, African American history, and Southern religion.

  • - Southern Planters at Home
    af Eugene D. Genovese
    284,95 - 817,95 kr.

    American slaveholders used the wealth and leisure that slave labor provided to cultivate lives of gentility and refinement. This study provides a vivid portrait of slaveholders at home and at play as they built a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.

  • - The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory
    af Karlos K. (Texas Tech University) Hill
    226,95 - 1.155,95 kr.

    This book tells the story of African Americans' evolving attitudes towards lynching from the 1880s to the present. Unlike most histories of lynching, it explains how African Americans were both purveyors and victims of lynch mob violence and how this dynamic has shaped the meaning of lynching in black culture.

  • af James Van Horn (Emory University Melton
    939,95 kr.

    This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of America.

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    903,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Damian Alan (Universiteit Leiden) Pargas
    312,95 - 956,95 kr.

    This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. It analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.

  • - North Carolina's Unionists
    af Barton A. (Washington and Lee University Myers
    1.103,95 kr.

    This book analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles against other Southerners.

  • af Knoxville) Harlow & Luke E. (University of Tennessee
    403,95 - 1.049,95 kr.

    This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery.

  • - Power's Purchase in the Old South
    af Kathleen M. (Iowa State University) Hilliard
    307,95 - 988,95 kr.

    This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters.

  • - Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century
    af Massachusetts) Jewell & Katherine Rye (Fitchburg State University
    428,95 - 572,95 kr.

    Jewell writes the first history of the Southern States Industrial Council (SSIC), which charts its transformation as a regional business interest to a key player in the South's dramatic political realignment in the post-1945 era from 'Solid South' to conservative Republican stronghold.

  • af Carbondale) Brown & Ras Michael (Southern Illinois University
    362,95 - 1.142,95 kr.

    Examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes.

  • af Birmingham) Steele & Brian (University of Alabama
    410,95 - 1.163,95 kr.

    This book describes Thomas Jefferson as the essential teller of what he once called the 'American Story' and argues that his confidence about America's greatness was rooted less in his famously cosmic optimism and more in his extensive empirical assessment of American character.

  • - Stories from the Antebellum South
    af Johanna Nicol (University of Alabama) Shields
    383,95 - 1.163,95 kr.

    This book explores the relationship between freedom and slavery in the antebellum American South, studying authors who spoke for the Southwest's educated classes but often reached national readerships. Instead of treating freedom as an abstraction, this book analyzes the practical meanings attached to liberty by people who treasured it, even as they defended slavery.

  • af South Carolina) Curtis & Christopher Michael (Claflin University
    343,95 - 796,95 kr.

    This book explores how Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It details how the traditional principles of land tenure were subverted by economic and political changes, and how they fostered law reforms where slavery replaced land ownership as the distinguishing basis for political power.

  • af Philadelphia) Wells & Jonathan Daniel (Temple University
    364,95 - 1.046,95 kr.

    This is the first book to examine women writers in the nineteenth-century South. While popular myths depict the shy and quiet Southern belle, this book demonstrates that Southern women were often politically active and outspoken, and calls into question widespread assumptions about the nineteenth-century South.

  • - The Morality of a Slaveholder
    af Ari Helo
    382,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    Could Jefferson claim any consistency in his advocacy of democracy and the rights of man while remaining one of the largest slaveholders in Virginia? This extensive study of Jefferson's intellectual outlook suggests that, once we fully acknowledge the premises of his ethical thought and his now outdated scientific views, he could. Jefferson famously thought the human mind to be 'susceptible of much improvement ... most of all, in matters of government and religion'. Ari Helo's thorough analysis of Jefferson's understanding of Christian morality, atheism, contemporary theories of moral sentiments, ancient virtue ethics, natural rights, and the principles of justice and benevolence suggests that Jefferson refused to be a philosopher, and did so for moral reasons. This book finds Jefferson profoundly political in his understanding of individual moral responsibility and human progress.

  • af College of Charleston, South Carolina) McCandless & Peter (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus
    327,95 - 1.054,95 kr.

    In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Professor McCandless argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided and denied disease; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South and the United States.

  • - Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood
    af Robert E Bonner
    408,95 - 762,95 kr.

    Recounts efforts of 'proslavery nationalists' to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission in overtly proslavery terms.

  • - Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South
    af Susanna Michele (North Carolina State University) Lee
    382,95 - 1.157,95 kr.

    This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male and female; elite and non-elite; white, black, and American Indian - disagreed with the federal government over the obligations citizens owed to their nation and the obligations the nation owed to its citizens.

  • - Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom
     
    349,95 kr.

    The nine essays in this volume unpack the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves. Together, the contributions argue that 1863 did not mark an end point or a mission accomplished in black freedom; rather, it initiated the beginning of an ongoing, contested process.

  • - Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom
     
    1.165,95 kr.

    The nine essays in this volume unpack the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves. Together, the contributions argue that 1863 did not mark an end point or a mission accomplished in black freedom; rather, it initiated the beginning of an ongoing, contested process.

  • - Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1860
    af Hayden R. (College of Charleston Smith
    636,95 kr.

    This book examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from their inception at the turn of the seventeenth century to the brink of their institutional collapse at the eve of the Civil War.

  • - The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance, 1920-1941
    af Georgia) Gardner & Sarah (Mercer University
    411,95 - 642,95 kr.

    A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital role in shaping an image of the South in the American national consciousness during the interwar years.