Author: Sidney AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The South Since the War
Author: Sidney AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The South Since the War
Author: Sidney AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Five months after the end of the Civil War, northern journalist Sidney Andrews toured the former Confederacy to report on the political, economic, and social conditions in the aftermath of the south's defeat. His more than forty articles in the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Advertiser were so popular with curious northerners that Andrews published them as a book in 1866. This is Andrews's vivid first-hand account of the South after the Civil War.
The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War
Author: Charles S. AikenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421436124
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Originally published in 1998. "The plantation," writes Charles Aiken, "is among the most misunderstood institutions of American history. The demise of the plantation has been pronounced many times, but the large industrial farms survive as significant parts of, not just the South's, but the nation's agriculture."In this sweeping historical and geographical account, Aiken traces the development of the Southern cotton plantation since the Civil War—from the emergence of tenancy after 1865, through its decline during the Depression, to the post-World War Two development of the large industrial farm. Tracing the geographical changes in plantation agriculture and the plantation regions after 1865, Aiken shows how the altered landscape of the South has led many to the false conclusion that the plantation has vanished. In fact, he explains, while certain regions of the South have reverted to other uses, the cotton plantation survives in a form that is, in many ways, remarkably similar to that of its antebellum predecessors. Aiken also describes the evolving relationship of African-Americans to the cotton plantation during the thirteen decades of economic, social, and political changes from Reconstruction through the War on Poverty—including the impact of alterations in plantation agriculture and the mass migration of Southern blacks to the urban North during the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with more than 130 maps and photographs (many original and many from FSA photographers), The Cotton Plantation South is a vivid and colorful account of landscape, geography, race, politics, and civil rights as they relate to one of America's most enduring and familiar institutions.
The South and America Since World War II
Author: James Charles CobbPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195166515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In this sweeping narrative, Cobb covers such diverse topics as "Dixiecrats," the "southern strategy," the South's domination of today's GOP, immigration, the national ascendance of southern culture and music, and the roles of women and an increasingly visible gay population in contemporary southern life. Beginning with the early stages of the civil rights struggle, Cobb discusses how the attack on Pearl Harbor set the stage for the demise of Jim Crow. He examines the NAACP's postwar assault on the South's racial system, the famous bus boycott in Montgomery, the emergence of Rev. Martin Luther King in the movement, and the dramatic protests and confrontations that finally brought profound racial changes, and two-party politics to the South.
How the South Won the Civil War
Author: Heather Cox RichardsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190900911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on extractive industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy, despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion. To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity. At the nation's founding, it was the Eastern "yeoman farmer" who galvanized and symbolized the American Revolution. After the Civil War, that mantle was assumed by the Western cowboy, singlehandedly defending his land against barbarians and savages as well as from a rapacious government. New states entered the Union in the late nineteenth century and western and southern leaders found yet more common ground. As resources and people streamed into the West during the New Deal and World War II, the region's influence grew. "Movement Conservatives," led by westerners Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, claimed to embody cowboy individualism and worked with Dixiecrats to embrace the ideology of the Confederacy. Richardson's searing book seizes upon the soul of the country and its ongoing struggle to provide equal opportunity to all. Debunking the myth that the Civil War released the nation from the grip of oligarchy, expunging the sins of the Founding, it reveals how and why the Old South not only survived in the West, but thrived.
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Author: Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820313962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Offers a chronological account of the Civil War, reexamines theories for the South's defeat, and analyzes Confederate and Union military strategy
The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas
Author: Sidney AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598619716
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The South Since the War : as Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas
Author: Andrews, SidneyPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Xerox University Microfilms
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The South Since the War
Author: Sidney AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Confederate Reckoning
Author: Stephanie McCurryPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners’ national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people—white women and slaves—and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.