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The U.S. South and Europe : Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a cata...
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The U.S. South and Europe: An Introduction; 1. Southerners Abroad: Europe and the Cultural Encounter, 1830-1895; 2. Alexis de Tocqueville and Three German Travel Accounts on the Antebellum South and New Orleans; 3. The Germal Forty-Eighters' Critique of the U.S. South, 1850-1861; 4. ""In the Days of Her Power and Glory"": Visions of Venice in Antebellum Charleston; 5. Elizabethan Dreams, Victorial Nightmares: Antebellum South Carolina's Future through an English Looking Glass; 6. Slavery or Independence: The Confederate Dilemma in Europe.
- 7. The Lynching of Southern Europeans in the Southern United States: The Plight of Italian Immigrants in Dixie8. Southern Politicians, British Reformers, and Ida B. Wells's 1893-1894 Transatlantic Antilynching Campaign; 9. Transatlantic Fundamentalism: Southern Preachers in London's Pulpits during World War I; 10. Europeans Interpret the American South of the Civil War Era: How British and French Critics Received The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone WIth the Wind (1939); 11. Gunnar Myrdal and Arthur Raper in the Jim Crow South.
- 12. Explaining Jim Crow fo German Prisoners of War: The Impact of the South on the World War II Reeducation Program13. Britain, the American South, and the Wide Civil Rights Movement; 14. Resisting the Wind of Change: The Citizens' Councils and European Decolonization.