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The Promise of the New South - Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover, Anniversary Edition)
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The Promise of the New South - Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover, Anniversary Edition)
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At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five
cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking
machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle
down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came
the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of
new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence,
Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between
Reconstruction and the turn of the century. Ranging from the
Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to
tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers
takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread
of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers
swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers,
trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of
Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous
public meetings of the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of
society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of
each in the emerging New South. Central to the entire story is the
role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between
blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crows laws and
disfranchisement. The teeming nineteenth-century South comes to
life in these pages. When this book first appeared in 1992, it won
a broad array of prizes and was a finalist for both the National
Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The citation for the National
Book Award declared Promise of the New South a vivid and
masterfully detailed picture of the evolution of a new society. The
Atlantic called it "one of the broadest and most original
interpretations of southern history of the past twenty years."
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