Remembering Dixie : the battle to control historical memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865-1941 /
"Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place 'Where the Old South Still Lives.' Tourists flocked to view the town's decaying antebellum mansions, hoop-skirted hostesses, and a pageant saturated in sentimental L...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2019]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Natchez pilgrimages
- Forging new identities in a world gone mad
- Memory making on parade: African American historical identity in Reconstruction-era Natchez
- a taste for associations: reconstructing white identities in postwar Natchez
- Picture makers: black and white historical memory in postbellum Natchez
- Selling historic Natchez to depression-era pilgrims
- The battle of the hoopskirts: the ladies go to court
- Epilogue: Natchez today: where more than the old south still lives
- Guide to historic Natchez homes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.