Looking south : chapters in the story of an American region
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Looking south : chapters in the story of an American region
（Contributions in American history, no. 136）
Greenwood Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [259]-264
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The dramatic changes experienced by the South over the past 150 years have challenged deeply rooted values, beliefs, and institutions and shaped the region's complex and tumultuous history. These challenges, and the southern response to them, are the focus of this book. Presenting sixteen essays selected from more than eighty presented at a recent conference on the South, it provides an interpretive re-examination of five major topics in southern history. These are the impact of Reconstruction, the development of racial attitudes, the debate over secession, southern economic development, and the use of literature as an instrument of self-criticism and analysis.
The first chapter surveys interpretations of the Reconstruction era and analyzes it in terms of the extended historical process of adjusting to the end of slavery. Several essays trace some of the ways in which racial attitudes have affected the evolution of southern society from the colonial era to the present. Among the topics considered are the defense and support of slavery by the southern religious establishment, the impact of African-American culture on the early Ku Klux Klan, the experience of desegregation, and the stereotyping of blacks. Addressing the question of secession, the next group of essays examines the varying responses to the issue in different southern counties and states. Chapters on southern economic development discuss women's roles in the colonial agricultural economy, postbellum developments in agricultural labor, and the lives of two individualistic southern entrepreneurs. The final chapters examine the efforts of southern writers to understand the southern experience and to tell the story of the South in fiction and popular history. Including the contributions of many leading historians, this work offers fascinating new data as well as significant reinterpretations in several major areas of southern historical scholarship. It will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers concerned with southern, African-American, and U.S. history.
目次
Looking South: An Introduction Reconstructing the South Writing About Reconstruction: A Personal Reflection Black Images in the White Mind The Great Sellout: George Whitefield on Slavery The Social Thought of Antebellum Southern Theologians Family Secrets: How African-American Culture Helped Shape the Early Ku Klux Klan Desegregation in South Carolina, 1950-1963: Sometime "Between 'Now' and 'Never'" Southern Autobiography and the Problem of Race Differing Attachments to the Union Uncertain Masters: The South Carolina Elite and Slavery in the Secession Crisis of 1850 Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in Southampton County, Virginia Mountain Unionism, Secession, and Regional Self-Image: The Contrasting Cases of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee Building a Southern Economy "To Comfort the Heart": English Women and Families in the Settlement of Colonial Virginia Entrepreneurship in the Old South: The Career of Robert Jemison, Jr. of Alabama From Captain of Industry to Sergeant of Socialism: William Greene Raoul and the Management of Southern Labor Marx, the Market, and the Freedmen: Land and Labor in Late Nineteenth Century Georgia Telling About The South "A Great, Pure Fire": Sexual Passion in the Virginia Fiction of Amelie Rives The War Within a War: Views of the Civil War During World War II Walker, Will, and Honor Dying: The Percys and Literary Creativity Bibliographical Essay Index
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