Lost Revolutions The South in The 1950s

Name: Lost Revolutions The South in The 1950s
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ISBN: 9780807848487

ISBN-10: 0807848484

ISBN-13: 9780807848487

Edition: 2000

Authors: Pete Daniel

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This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete Daniel demonstrates, the road into the 1950s took some unexpected turns. Daniel chronicles the myriad forces that turned the world southerners had known upside down in the postwar period. In chapters that explore such subjects as the civil rights movement, segregation, and school integration; the breakdown of traditional agriculture and the ensuing rural-urban migration; gay and lesbian life; and the emergence of rock 'n' roll music…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Pete Daniel has been both a professor of history and a public historian. He has served as president of the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, and he currently lives in Washington, D.C. This is his seventh book.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Postwar Landscape



Going among Strangers



Creation and Destruction



Deprived and Mistreated



A Rogue Bureaucracy



Low Culture



Fast and Furious



Rhythms of the Land



A Little of the Rebel



Fatal Divisions



Brothers of the Faith



Restrained Segregationists



The Best White Citizens



The Sound of Silence



Bibles and Bayonets



Radical Departure


Notes


Index