Interpreting American history
Subtitle: The new South
By: edited by James S. Humphreys
Series: Interpreting American history; Interpreting American history series
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781606353158; 9781631013034
Subjects: History; Historiography; Social conditions
Other titles: New South
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New south historiography / James S. Humphreys; title: Reconstruction along the global color line / Andrew Zimmerman; title: The historiography of southern populism / Connie L. Lester; title: Lynching and racial violence in the new south / Sarah L. Silkey; title: Women in the New South / Rebecca Montgomery; title: Historians and unions in the modern south / Robert H. Zieger; title: The Great Depression and the South / Stephanie A. Carpenter; title: Racial change and World War II in the New South / Jennifer E. Brooks; title: To redeem the soul of Dixie / Michael T. Bertrand; title: Realigning the base / Michael Bowen; title: The New South and the natural world / Mark D. Hersey and James C. Giesen.