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William Harris, the editor of Routledge's The Old South: New
Studies of Society and Culture, aims in The New South to introduce
students to the historiography of this later volatile period of
southern history, which starts from the racial segregation
prevalent after the end of the Civil War and continues through the
Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s and 1960s. For many years, this
historiography centered on the writing of C. Vann Woodward.
Woodward remains an important touchstone in the field, but in The
New South, Harris gathers the most significant scholarship
illustrating the range of challenges to Woodward's interpretation
of the South, including the importance of place, the role of women,
the significance of memory, and the story of the long Civil Rights
Movement. The collection also features an introduction to the
historiography of the New South, and a Guide to Further
Reading.
Combining established work with that of recent provocative
scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts
students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic
area. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene
Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential
interpretation of the South as a "paternalistic" society and
culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide
dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between
masters and slaves, men and women. The essays draw on a wide range
of disciplines, including economics, psychology and anthropology to
investigate the nature of plantation and family life.
Contributions by established scholars include Bertram Wyatt-Brown's
provocative essay on slave psychology, excerpts from Sterling
Stuckey's analysis of the African roots of slave religion and
folklore, and Robert William Fogel's newest synthesis of the work
on the economics of slavery. Essays by youngerhistorians, including
Deborah White, Joan Cashin, Norrence T. Jones, Jr. and Seven M.
Stowe probe family relationships among whites and blacks on slave
plantations.
Combining established work with that of recent provocative
scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts
students in touch with some of the central debates in this field.
It includes excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the
South as a "paternalistic" society and culture, and contributions
from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative
interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men
and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines,
including economics, psychology and anthropology to investigate the
nature of plantation and family life in the South. Explanatory
notes guide the reader through each essay and the editor's
introduction places the work in its historiographical context.
Contributors include Eugene Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese,
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Sterling Stuckey, Robert William Fogel,
Deborah Gray White and Joan E. Cashin.
In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in
the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and
original scholarship in the field of the antebellum South published
since 1992, when the first edition appeared. The present volume
illustrates both the continuities and new developments in
antebellum Southern history, starting from the work of Eugene
Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and moving into work that
challenges their traditional reading of the slave South as a
paternalist society. The collection also features an introduction
to the historiography of the slave South, and a Guide to Further
Reading.
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All eight episodes of the BBC miniseries starring James Nesbitt and
Frances O'Connor. When Tony and Emily Hughes (Nesbitt and O'Connor)
travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver (Oliver Hunt),
their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears
into the crowd of a busy French street. As the frantic father loses
patience with the police and their lack of motivation to search for
Oliver, Tony takes matters into his own hands and begins to form a
private investigation. The cast also includes Tchéky Karyo and
Anastasia Hille.
After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward
including African Americans as full participants in the country's
institutions? Conventional historical timelines mark the end of
Reconstruction in the year 1877, but the Methodist Episcopal Church
continued to wrestle with issues of racial inclusion for decades
after political support for racial reform had receded. An 1844
schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern
branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern
Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries and teachers
into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M.E. Church
succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and
thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any
other Protestant denomination. A Long Reconstruction details the
denomination's journey with unification and justice. African
Americans who joined did so in a spirit of hope that through
religious fellowship and cooperation they could gain respect and
acceptance and ultimately assume a position of equality and
brotherhood with whites. However, as segregation gradually took
hold in the South, many northern Methodists evinced the same
skepticism as white southerners about the fitness of African
Americans for positions of authority and responsibility in an
interracial setting. The African American membership was never
without strong white allies who helped to sustain the Church's
official stance against racial caste but, like the nation as a
whole, the M.E. Church placed a growing priority on putting their
broken union back together.
Quicksilver War is a panoramic political history of the wars that
coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and
eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic
and constantly shifting conflict involving many different parties
and phases. William Harris distils the highly complex dynamics
behind the conflict, starting with the brutalising Baathist regimes
in Damascus and Baghdad. He charts the malignant consequences of
incompetent US occupation of Iraq and Bashar al-Assad's
self-righteous mismanagement of Syria, through the implosion of
Syria, and the emergence of eastern and western theatres of war
focused respectively on future control of Syria and the challenge
of ISIS. Beyond the immediate arena of conflict, geopolitical
riptides have also been set in motion, including Turkey's
embroilment in the war and the shifting circumstances of the Kurds.
This sweeping history addresses urgent questions for our time. Will
the world rubber-stamp and bankroll the Russian-led 'solution' in
Syria, backed by Turkey and Iran? Is the 'Quicksilver War' about to
reach an explosive finale? Or will ongoing political manoeuvring
mutate into years of further violence?
In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the
nation's sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a "new birth
of freedom." Lincoln's Unfinished Work analyzes how the United
States has attempted to realize-or subvert-that promise over the
past century and a half. The volume is not solely about Lincoln, or
the immediate unfinished work of Reconstruction, or the broader
unfinished work of America coming to terms with its tangled history
of race; it investigates all three topics. The book opens with an
essay by Richard Carwardine, who explores Lincoln's distinctive
sense of humor. Later in the volume, Stephen Kantrowitz examines
the limitations of Lincoln's Native American policy, while James W.
Loewen discusses how textbooks regularly downplay the sixteenth
president's antislavery convictions. Lawrence T. McDonnell looks at
the role of poor Blacks and whites in the disintegration of the
Confederacy. Eric Foner provides an overview of the
Constitution-shattering impact of the Civil War amendments. Essays
by J. William Harris and Jerald Podair examine the fate of
Lincoln's ideas about land distribution to freedpeople. Gregory P.
Downs focuses on the structural limitations that Republicans faced
in their efforts to control racist violence during Reconstruction.
Adrienne Petty and Mark Schultz argue that Black land ownership in
the post-Reconstruction South persisted at surprisingly high rates.
Rhondda Robinson Thomas examines the role of convict labor in the
construction of Clemson University, the site of the conference from
which this book evolved. Other essays look at events in the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Randall J. Stephens analyzes
the political conservatism of white evangelical Christianity. Peter
Eisenstadt uses the career of Jackie Robinson to explore the
meanings of integration. Joshua Casmir Catalano and Briana
Pocratsky examine the debased state of public history on the
airwaves, particularly as purveyed by the History Channel. Gavin
Wright rounds out the volume with a striking political and economic
analysis of the collapse of the Democratic Party in the South.
Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a far-reaching,
thought-provoking exploration of the unfinished work of democracy,
particularly as it pertains to the legacy of slavery and white
supremacy in America.
Part of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the
seven liberal arts, set within an amusing mythological-allegorical
tale of courtship and marriage among the pagan gods. The text
provides an understanding of medieval allegory and the components
of a medieval education.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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