Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book

Title Interpreting American History : The New South.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : The Kent State University Press, [2018]
©2018

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Farmington - Downloadable Materials  Freading Ebook    Downloadable
Farmington cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Newington - Downloadable Materials  Freading E-Book    Downloadable
Newington cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials  Freading Ebook    Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Wethersfield - Downloadable Materials  FreadingEbook    Downloadable
Wethersfield cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Windsor Locks - Downloadable Materials  Freading Ebook    Downloadable
Windsor Locks cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
Description 1 online resource (352 pages).
Series Interpreting American history series
Access Access limited to subscribing institutions.
Summary The concept of the New South" has elicited fierce debate among historians since the mid-twentieth century. At the heart of the argument is the question of whether the post-Civil War South transformed itself into something genuinely new or simply held firm to patterns of life established before 1861. The South did change in significant ways after the Civil War ended, but many of its enduring trademarks, the most prominent being white supremacy, remained constant well into the twentieth century. Scholars have yet to meet the vexing challenge of proving or disproving the existence of a New South. Even in the twenty-first century, amid the South's sprawling cities, expanding suburbia, and high-tech environment, vestiges of the Old South remain. Bringing order out of the voluminous canon of writing on the New South poses a challenge. The essays here trace the lineaments of historical debate on the most important questions related to the South's history since 1865 and how that argument has changed over time as modernity descended on Dixie. Interpreting American History: The New South consists of essays written by noted scholars that address topics relating to the New South, such as the Populist era, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights Movement, and emerging fields such as Reconstruction in a global context, New South environmental history, and southern women. Each contributor explains clearly and succinctly the winding path historical writing has taken on each of the topics. Interpreting American History: The New South will appeal to a wide range of U.S. history students. Established scholars and nonacademics will also find it to be a valuable source."
Note Print version record.
Subject Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999. Origins of the new South, 1877-1913.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting.
Southern States -- Historiography.
Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Humphreys, James Scott, 1963- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Interpreting American history. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2017] 9781631013027 (hbk.) (DLC)2017016130
Standard No. 9781631013034
ISBN 9781631013034 (pdf)
-->
Add a Review