Problem South Region, Empire and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930

Name: Problem South Region, Empire and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930
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ISBN: 9780820342603

ISBN-10: 0820342602

ISBN-13: 9780820342603

Edition: 2012

Authors: Natalie J. Ring, Jane Dailey, Bryant Simon

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For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony. In truth, says Natalie J. Ring, this buoyant mythology competed with an equally powerful and far-reaching set of representations of the backward Problem South—one that shaped and reflected attempts by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts to rehabilitate and reform the country’s benighted region. Ring rewrites the history of sectional reconciliation and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction. Regional, National, and Global Designs



The "Southern Problem" and Readjustment



The Menace of the Diseased South



The White Plague of Cotton



The Poor White Problem as the "New Race Question"



The "Race Problem" and the Fiction of the Color Line


Epilogue. The Enduring Paradox of the South


Notes


Bibliography


Index