The Old South's modern worlds : slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress

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Label

The Old South's modern worlds : slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress

Title remainder

slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress

Statement of responsibility

edited by L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers

Contributor

• Towers, Frank
• Schoen, Brian
• Barnes, L. Diane

Subject

• Southern States -- Historiography
• Regionalism -- Southern States -- Historiography
• Electronic books
• Southern States -- History | Study and teaching
• Slavery -- Southern States -- Historiography
• Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Historiography

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

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 not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-with cultural and material markers of modernity such as moral reform, cities, and industry. Considered as proponents of American manifest destiny, for exa

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

Dewey number

975

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

F208.2

LC item number

.S68 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography