The Old South's modern worlds slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress / edited by L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers.
| Other author | Barnes, L. Diane. |
| Other author | Schoen, Brian. |
| Other author | Towers, Frank. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xv, 331 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Antebellum southerners and the national idea / Peter S. Onuf -- A world safe for modernity: Antebellum southern proslavery intellectuals confront Great Britain / Matthew Mason -- The burdens and opportunities of interdependence: the political economies of the planter class / Brian Schoen -- "A disposition to work": rural enslaved laborers on the eve of the Civil War / Larry E. Hudson, Jr. -- Rethinking the slave trade: slave traders and the market revolution in the south / Steven Deyle -- The pregnant economies of the border south, 1840-1860: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the possibilities of slave-labor expansion / James L. Huston -- The southern path to modern cities: urbanization in the slave states / Frank Towers -- "Swerve me?": The south, railroads, and the rush to modernity / William G. Thomas -- Industry and its laborers, free and slave in late-Antebellum Virginia / L. Diane Barnes -- Zion in black and white: African-American Evangelicals and missionary work in the old south / Charles F. Irons -- The return of the native: innovative traditions in the southeast / Andrew K. Frank -- Sex, self, and the performance of patriarchal manhood in the old south / Craig Thompson Friend -- Counterpoint: what if Genovese is right?: The premodern outlook of southern Planters / Marc Egnal -- The American Civil War, emancipation, and reconstruction on the world stage / Edward L. Ayers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010032534 |
| ISBN | 9780195384017 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0195384016 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195384024 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0195384024 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |