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If the 2017 Charlottesville protests and the January 6 Capitol
assault made you think “That’s not us,” think again: in this
stunning American history, Steven Hahn shows recurring episodes of
racial, religious, and ethnic expulsion, and a localism suspicious
of outsiders, including the federal government. Inspiring these
events is an illiberalism in which community values override
individual rights and hierarchy is superior to democracy. Driven by
popular movements, the courts, and legislation, illiberalism has
long been embedded in everyday life. Before the Civil War,
midwestern free states invoked community safety to enact laws
denying Black people their civil rights. Progressive reformers such
as Margaret Sanger harnessed theories of racial inequality and
eugenics to advocate birth control in ethnic communities. And one
enduring outcome of the 1960s was the illiberalism that George
Wallace made politically mainstream. Here is America’s
unexceptional history, its founding ideals in ongoing tension with
illiberal beliefs.
North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s,
marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the
restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty
regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This
crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North
America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking North
American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the
histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United
States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light
of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They
uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have
been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts
within its national framework.
Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free
labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War.
Letters and testimony by the participants-former slaves, former
slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the
connection between developments in workplaces across the South and
an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and
the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place
the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major
themes. In the tense and often violent aftermath of emancipation,
former slaves seeking to ground their liberty in economic
independence came into conflict with former owners determined to
keep them dependent and subordinate. Overseeing that conflict were
northern officials with their own notions of freedom, labor, and
social order. This volume of Freedom depicts the dramatic events
that ensued-the eradication of bondage and the contest over
restoring land to ex-Confederates; the introduction of labor
contracts and the day-to-day struggles that engulfed the region's
plantations, farms, and other workplaces; the achievements of those
freedpeople who attained a measure of independence; and rumors of a
year-end insurrection in which ex-slaves would seize the land they
had been denied and exact revenge for past oppression.
Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in
the South and the restructuring of society by which the former
slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land
they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government
they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Eric Foner
examines Reconstruction in the southern states against the
experience of Haiti, where a violent slave revolt was followed by
the establishment of an undemocratic government and the imposition
of a system of forced labor; the British Caribbean, where the
colonial government oversaw an orderly transition from slavery to
the creation of an almost totally dependent work force; and early
twentieth-century southern and eastern Africa, where a
self-sufficient peasantry was dispossessed in order to create a
dependent black work force. Measuring the progress of freedmen in
the post--Civil War South against that of freedmen in other
recently emancipated societies, Foner reveals Reconstruction to
have been, despite its failings, a unique and dramatic experiment
in interracial democracy in the aftermath of slavery. Steven Hahn's
timely new foreword places Foner's analysis in the context of
recent scholarship and assesses its enduring impact in the
twenty-first century.
Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the
Civil War and Reconstruction, the lot of small farmers was little
improved. Examining the nonplantation region of upcountry Georgia
as a microcosm of the South, Steven Hahn showed how farmers were
buffeted by such forces as the unravelling of antebellum household
economy, the development of market forces, the growth of a new
class of merchants-landlords, and rising tensions between town and
countryside - and how their resentments fueled the Populist
movement at the end of the 19th century. For this updated edition,
Hahn will add new material to discuss how the book has stood up
since it was published over twenty years ago, how the arguments and
questions were received, and what influence they may have had on
scholarship. He will also consider what has happened to historical
interest in Populism, poor white people and populist politics, as
well as why he thinks it likely that interest may revive and what
sort of questions and arguments may drive it.
For decades now literary critics have universally praised
Faulkner as one of the greatest writers of the modern era, yet
students assigned to read his novels in university, college, and
high school classes continue to struggle to make sense of his
convoluted plots, prolix style, and complex characterizations. The
broadest treatment to date of a topic of increasing concern, this
book is designed to provide fresh strategies and practical
suggestions for the classroom study of several of Faulkner's finest
novels and stories, including "The Sound and the Fury, Absalom,
Absalom , Light in August, The Unvanquished, " and "Go Down,
Moses."
The contributors, all noted Faulkner scholars who regularly
teach Faulkner works in their courses, employ a variety of critical
theories and approaches. In each chapter, theory is subordinated to
tested classroom methods that both motivate and assist students in
reading the texts and in understanding why Faulkner remains
relevant for contemporary readers. The teaching strategies
described in this book draw upon such diverse matters as cultural
and social analysis, historical context, reading and rhetorical
theory, film and stage techniques, comparative studies, and race,
class, and gender issues.
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN
1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume
surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together
essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text.
Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers,
education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines
will find these volumes particularly helpful.
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