ISBN:
9780813143194
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (317 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
New Directions in Southern History
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The U.S. South and Europe
DDC:
305.800975
Keywords:
Europe -- Relations -- Southern States
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Southern States -- Foreign public opinion, European
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Southern States -- Race relations
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Southern States -- Relations -- Europe
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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USA
;
Europa
;
Geschichte 1800-2000
Abstract:
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents ; The U.S. South and Europe: An Introduction; 1. Southerners Abroad: Europe and the Cultural Encounter, 1830-1895; 2. Alexis de Tocqueville and Three German Travel Accounts on the Antebellum South and New Orleans; 3. The Germal Forty-Eighters' Critique of the U.S. South, 1850-1861; 4. ""In the Days of Her Power and Glory"": Visions of Venice in Antebellum Charleston; 5. Elizabethan Dreams, Victorial Nightmares: Antebellum South Carolina's Future through an English Looking Glass; 6. Slavery or Independence: The Confederate Dilemma in Europe
Abstract:
7. The Lynching of Southern Europeans in the Southern United States: The Plight of Italian Immigrants in Dixie8. Southern Politicians, British Reformers, and Ida B. Wells's 1893-1894 Transatlantic Antilynching Campaign; 9. Transatlantic Fundamentalism: Southern Preachers in London's Pulpits during World War I; 10. Europeans Interpret the American South of the Civil War Era: How British and French Critics Received The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone WIth the Wind (1939); 11. Gunnar Myrdal and Arthur Raper in the Jim Crow South
Abstract:
12. Explaining Jim Crow fo German Prisoners of War: The Impact of the South on the World War II Reeducation Program13. Britain, the American South, and the Wide Civil Rights Movement; 14. Resisting the Wind of Change: The Citizens' Councils and European Decolonization; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index; New Directions in Southern History series page
Abstract:
The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a catalyst for the nation's only civil war, and later, as a battleground in violent civil rights conflicts. Once considered isolated and benighted by the international community, the South has recently evoked considerable interest among popular audiences and academic observers on both sides of the Atlanti
Note:
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