John A. Salmond

Varieties of Southern History

New Essays on a Region and Its People
Herausgeber: Clayton, Bruce; Salmond, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects the best of contemporary scholarship on the history of the American South. Each contributor is an authority-one a Pulitzer Prize winner. The essays examine what life was like for the slaves; for the victims of terror and lynchings; for workers who dared strike and demand fairness; and for dissenters who challenged the accepted truths. The essays are grouped around three major research areas: history and the social sciences, history and biography, and the new labor history. This is a unique collection of essays by some of the world's leading historians of the South, together with work by younger scholars. All contributors, however, are working at the cutting edge of their particular methodological approaches. The book, for example, includes both an essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Rhys Isaac, and one by Rutgers University graduate student Beth Hale. Yet, both have a common concern to explore the reaches of the Southern past through the dimension of ethnography. The essays in the book are grouped according to theme. The largest section, the social sciences and Southern history, includes essays drawing heavily on the insights of anthropology of ethnography and of statistical analysis. Each essay in the second section is designed to illustrate how life history can be used to illuminate much larger histoical themes and processes. The essays in the last section on labor in the new South all illustrate, among other things, the importance of drawing on the insights of historians of women in order to redress the masculinist presuppositons of labor historians. All the essays in the book, in fact, reflect current concerns with gender and race in the re-interpretation of the Southern past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780313298608
• ISBN-10: 0313298602
• Artikelnr.: 25566598

Autorenporträt

Bruce L. Clayton, John A. Salmond

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Social Sciences and Southern History Stories of
Enslavement: A Person-Centered Ethnography from an Eighteenth-Century
Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac Texts, Texture, and Context: Toward an
Ethnographic History of Slave Resistance by Charles Joyner Reading the
Slave Body: Demeanor, Gesture, and African-American Culture by Shane White
and Graham White Deadly Amusements: Spectacle Lynchings and Southern
Whiteness, 1890-1940 by Grace Elizabeth Hale Who Were the Victims of
Lynching? Evidence from Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 by
Terence Finnegan Southern History through Life History Thomas Thistlewood
Becomes a Creole by Trevor Burnard Doing God's Service: Adelbert Ames and
Reconstruction in Mississippi by Warren A. Ellem Frank Cushing and W.E.B.
Du Bois: Religion, Social Science, and Traveling South in the Late
Nineteenth Century by Sam Elworthy Race, Gender, and Modernism: The Case of
Lillian Smith by Bruce Clayton Labor in the New South Aspects of
Modernization in the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 by John Salmond Coming into
the Real World: Southern Textile Workers and the TWUA, 1945-1951 by Timothy
J. Minchin Bibliographical Essay Index