The Old South's modern worlds slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress

Antebellum southerners and the national idea / Peter S. Onuf -- A world safe for modernity: Antebellum southern proslavery intellectuals confront Great Britain / Matthew Mason -- The burdens and opportunities of interdependence: the political economies of the planter class / Brian Schoen -- "A...

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Weitere Verfasser: Barnes, Linda Diane (HerausgeberIn), Schoen, Brian (BerichterstatterIn), Towers, Frank (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford University Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung:Antebellum southerners and the national idea / Peter S. Onuf -- A world safe for modernity: Antebellum southern proslavery intellectuals confront Great Britain / Matthew Mason -- The burdens and opportunities of interdependence: the political economies of the planter class / Brian Schoen -- "A disposition to work": rural enslaved laborers on the eve of the Civil War / Larry E. Hudson, Jr. -- Rethinking the slave trade: slave traders and the market revolution in the south / Steven Deyle -- The pregnant economies of the border south, 1840-1860: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the possibilities of slave-labor expansion / James L. Huston -- The southern path to modern cities: urbanization in the slave states / Frank Towers -- "Swerve me?": The south, railroads, and the rush to modernity / William G. Thomas -- Industry and its laborers, free and slave in late-Antebellum Virginia / L. Diane Barnes -- Zion in black and white: African-American Evangelicals and missionary work in the old south / Charles F. Irons -- The return of the native: innovative traditions in the southeast / Andrew K. Frank -- Sex, self, and the performance of patriarchal manhood in the old south / Craig Thompson Friend -- Counterpoint: what if Genovese is right?: The premodern outlook of southern Planters / Marc Egnal -- The American Civil War, emancipation, and reconstruction on the world stage / Edward L. Ayers
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 331 S
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25 cm
ISBN:0195384016
0-19-538401-6
0195384024
0-19-538402-4
9780195384017
978-0-19-538401-7
9780195384024
978-0-19-538402-4