The Old South's modern worlds : slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The South in a world of nations
- pt. 2. Slavery in a modernizing society
- pt. 3. Material progress and its discontents
- pt. 4. The blurred boundaries of Southern culture
- pt. 5. The long view of the Old South.