Research Catalog

Title

From the Old South to the new : essays on the transitional South / edited by Walter J. Fraser, Jr. and Winfred B. Moore, Jr.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fraser, Walter J., Jr., 1936-
• Moore, Winfred B., 1949-
• Citadel Conference on the South

Description

xiii, 286 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

This meaty collection of 19 original essays charts continuity and change in the South from the mid-19th century to the present by examining race relations, crime and violence, urban growth, civic and political leadership, mythology, and thought.... These perceptive, suggestive essays provide the best guides available to the changing South. An important book, recommended for university libraries.

Series Statement

Contributions in American history, 0084-9219 ; no. 93

Uniform Title

Contributions in American history no. 93.

Subject

• Geschichte 1775-1865
• Since 1775
• Geschichte 1775-1865
• Southern States > History > 1775-1865
• Southern States > History > 1865-
• Southern States > Social conditions
• Southern States > Race relations

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Selected papers from the Citadel Conferences on the South held in 1978 and 1979.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [265]-279.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. The origins of Jim Crow laws revised -- A generation of defeat / David Herbert Donald -- Part II. Southern leadership : Change or continuity? -- From the Old South to the new : Another look at the theme of change and continuity / Dan T. Carter -- The ambivalence of change : From Old South to new in the Alabama black belt, 1850-1870 / William L. Barney -- "Builders of a new state" -- The town classes and early industrialization of South Carolina, 1880-1907 / David Carlton -- Part III. The city elite : The case of Charleston, South Carolina -- Wealth and class in Charleston in 1860 / Michael P. Johnson -- Social structure and urban form : Charleston, 1860-1880 / John P. Radford -- Leadership and decline in postwar Charleston, 1865-1910 / Don H. Doyle -- Part IV. Law and disorder : Case studies in Georgia -- Law and disorder in the Old South : The situation in Georgia, 1830-1860 / David J. Bodenhamer -- Whitecapping in late nineteenth-century Georgia / William F. Holmes -- Part V. Southern mythology : Fiction and film -- Southern writers and the image of Johnny Reb : Reflections of regional change since Appomattox / Stephen Davis -- Gone with the wind : Film as myth and message / Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr. -- Part VI. Following the color line : Questions of race relations -- Labor dependency among Freedmen, 1865-1880 / Ronald L.F. Davis -- Urban racial violence in the South during World War II : A comparative overview / James A. Burran -- Part VII. Cash's book : The Mind of the Southrevisited -- Race and mastery : The debate of 1903 / Mark K. Bauman -- W.J. Cash and Southern culture / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Part VIII. Mind or mindlessness, persistence or paradox? : Currents of Southern thought -- Slavery and Confederate nationalism / Steven A. Channing -- Hierarchy and democracy : The paradox of the Southern experience / Lawrence Goodwyn -- Dorothy Tilly and the Fellowship of the Concerned / Arnold Shankman -- James McBride Dabbs : Spokesman for racial liberalism / Robert M. Randolph.

ISBN

0313225346 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN

^^^80023315^

OCLC

• 6708831
• SCSB-12048190

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library