A sphinx on the American land : the nineteenth-century South in comparative perspective
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書誌事項
A sphinx on the American land : the nineteenth-century South in comparative perspective
(The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history)
Louisiana State University Press, 2003
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
One reason that the South attracts so much interest is that its history inevitably involves big questions, continuity versus change, slavery and freedom, the meaning of ""race,"" the formation of national identity, the struggle between local and centralized authority. Because these issues are central to human experience, southern history properly conceived is of more than regional interest. In A Sphinx on the American Land, Peter Kolchin explores three comparative frameworks for the study of the nineteenth-century South in an effort to nudge the subject away from provincialism and toward the kind of global concerns that are already transforming it into one of the most innovative fields of historical research.
The volume opens with a comparison between the South and the North, or what Kolchin terms the ""un-South."" This basic context, he explains, provides an essential backdrop for understanding the South; how one conceptualizes ""southernness"" has meaning only in terms of what it is not. Turning to the cohesion and variations among what he calls the ""many Souths,"" Kolchin reminds us that there has never been one South or archetypal southerner. Internal distinctions, whether geographic, class, religious, or racial, ultimately raise the question of whether one can properly speak of ""the"" South at all.
Finally, Kolchin explores parallels between the South and regions outside the United States, or ""other Souths."" He considers a number of ways in which the South can be studied in a broad international setting, paying particular attention to the similarities and differences between the emancipation of southern slaves and Russian serfs. In an eloquent afterword, he ponders the nature and importance of comparative history.
Kolchin examines how scholars have approached each of his comparative frameworks and how they might do so in the future, making A Sphinx on the American Land at once a work of history and of historiography. Illustrating the ways in which southern history is also American history and world history, this elegant, profound volume proves Kolchin to be one of the stellar southern historians of his generation.
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