The promise of the New South : life after Reconstruction
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The promise of the New South : life after Reconstruction
Oxford University Press, 2007
15th anniversary ed
- : pbk.
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1993"--t.p. verso
"Thoughts on th 15th anniversary edition": p. 439-444.
内容説明・目次
内容説明
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between
Reconstruction and the turn of the century.
Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of
the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crows laws and
disfranchisement. The teeming nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages.
When this book first appeared in 1992, it won a broad array of prizes and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The citation for the National Book Award declared Promise of the New South a vivid and masterfully detailed picture of the evolution of a new society. The Atlantic called it "one of the broadest and most original interpretations of southern history of the past twenty years."
目次
Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
Ch. 1: Junction
Ch. 2: Election News
Ch. 3: In Town
Ch. 4: Dry Goods
Ch. 5: Mill and Mine
Ch. 6: In Black and White
Ch. 7: Faith
Ch. 8: Out in the Country
Ch. 9: Alliances
Ch. 10: Populism
Ch. 11: Turning of the Tide
Ch. 12: Reunion and Reaction
Ch. 13: Books
Ch. 14: Voices
Ch. 15: Twentieth Century Limited
Epilogue
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