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Archipelagoes of My South - Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830-1965 (Paperback)
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Archipelagoes of My South - Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830-1965 (Paperback)
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A collection of essays representing forty-five years of reflection
on the central problems of southern history bound together by a
common concern with defining the crucial interaction of race and
class in the formation of southern politics and life. "The tourist
archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible" writes
the poet Derek Walcott. While Walcott refers to the islands of the
Caribbean, the analogous idea of a land made into solitary islands
by an imprisoned and inherited corruption is historian J. Mills
Thornton III's American South. The captivating essays in
Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region,
1830-1965 address this overarching and underlying narrative of
Alabama politics and the history of the South. Highlighting events
as significant as the role of social and economic conflict in the
southern secession movement, various aspects of Reconstruction, and
the role of the Ku Klux Klan in the politics of the 1920s, Thornton
draws from various points in the southern past in an effort to
identify and understand the sources of the region's power.
Moreover, each essay investigates its subject matter and peels back
layers with an aim to clarify why the enormous diversity of the
southern experience makes that power so great, all the while
allowing the reader to see connections that would not otherwise be
apparent. Archipelagoes of My South gathers previously uncollected
essays into a single volume covering the entire length and breadth
of Thornton's career. The author's principal concerns have always
been the arc of regional evolution and the significance of the
local. Thus, the mechanisms of political and social change and the
interrelationships across eras and generations are recurring themes
in many of these essays. Even those who have spent their entire
lives in the South may be unaware of the fractured layers of
history that lie beneath the landscape they inhabit. For those
southern residents who seek to comprehend more of their own past,
this landmark compilation of essays on Alabama and southern history
endeavors to provide illumination and enlightenment.
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