Stories of the South Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915

Name: Stories of the South Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915
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ISBN: 9781469614182

ISBN-10: 1469614189

ISBN-13: 9781469614182

Edition: 2014

Authors: K. Stephen Prince

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In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. In Stories of the South, K. Stephen Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/28/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

K. Stephen Prince is assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida.