Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers, eds. The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress.

The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress, is a volume of essays that aims to question traditional views of Southern history and culture.  Positioning itself against popular stereotypes and a vast body of professional scholarship that promotes conceptualizati...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
Autor principal: Maragou, Helena P.
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: European journal of American studies 2022
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress, is a volume of essays that aims to question traditional views of Southern history and culture.  Positioning itself against popular stereotypes and a vast body of professional scholarship that promotes conceptualizations of the antebellum South as unprogressive, insular, and trapped in its own traditions, The Old South’s Modern Worlds rewards its reader with a broad-ranging examination of the South’s negotiatio...