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Old South's Modern Worlds

By Barnes, L Diane

Old South's Modern Worlds

By Barnes, L Diane

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The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-with cultural and material markers of modernity such as moral reform, cities, and industry. Considered as proponents of American manifest destiny, for example, antebellum southern politicians look more like nationalists and less like separatists. Though situated within distinct communities, Southerners'-white, black, and red-participated in and responded to movements global in scope and transformative in effect. The turmoil that changes in Asian and European agriculture wrought among southern staple producers shows the interconnections between seemingly isolated southern farms and markets in distant lands. Deprovincializing the antebellum South, The Old South's Modern Worlds illuminates a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex transformations of the nineteenth-century world.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
348
Release Date:
2011-04-06
Publication Date:
2011-04-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195384024
ISBN13:
9780195384024
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
751 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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