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From yeoman to redneck in the South Carolina upcountry, 1850-1915
- Title
- From yeoman to redneck in the South Carolina upcountry, 1850-1915 / Stephen A. West.
- Author
- West, Stephen A., 1965-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
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- Description
- xii, 261 pages : maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915, Stephen A. West revises understandings of the American South by offering a new perspective on two iconic figures in the region's social landscape. "Yeoman," a term of praise for the small landowning farmer, was commonly used during the antebellum era, but it was ultimately eclipsed by "redneck," an epithet that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. In popular use, each served less as a precise class label than as a means to celebrate or denigrate the moral and civic worth of broad groups of white men. Viewing these richly evocative figures as ideological inventions rather than sociological realities, West examines the divisions they obscured and the conflicts that gave them such force."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The American South series
- Uniform Title
- American South series.
- Subjects
- Men, White > South Carolina > Social conditions
- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) > Social conditions
- South Carolina > History > 19th century
- Rednecks > South Carolina > History
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) > South Carolina > History
- Political culture > South Carolina > History
- Elite (Social sciences) > South Carolina > Attitudes > History
- Farmers > South Carolina > Social conditions
- South Carolina > Social conditions
- South Carolina > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-252) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The Yeoman and the Old South -- 1. Rethinking the Southern Yeoman: Slaves, Land, and Class in the Antebellum Upper Piedmont -- 2. Forging a "United People": Violence and Pro-slavery Politics -- 3. "A Complete Landsturm"? The Mobilization for Secession in the South Carolina Upcountry -- Pt. II. The Redneck and the New South -- 4. Town and Country in the New South -- 5. "The Majesty of the Law Should Constrain and Prevail": Lynch Law and Its White Opponents, 1890-1910 -- 6. Demagogue and Redneck in the New South -- Appendix A. Was South Carolina's Upper Piedmont Typical of the Nonplantation South? -- Appendix B. Statistical Methodology.
- ISBN
- 9780813926995 (alk. paper)
- 0813926998 (alk. paper)
- 9780813927046 (e-book : alk. paper)
- 0813927048 (e-book : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007031085
- 40015458980
- OCLC
- ocn163625220
- 163625220
- SCSB-5415291
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries