Stories of the South :: race and the Reconstruction of southern identity, 1865-1915 /

"In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white s...

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Main Author: Prince, K. Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469615561
1469615568
9781469614199
1469614197

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