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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453973103321

Autore

McWilliams Tennant S. <1943->

Titolo

The new South faces the world [[electronic resource] ] : foreign affairs and the Southern sense of self, 1877-1950 / / Tennant S. McWilliams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8173-8208-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

327.73009/034

Soggetti

Internationalists - Southern States - History

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1865-

Southern States Intellectual life 1865-

Southern States Relations Foreign countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1988.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mission and the Burden; 1 James H. Blount, Paramount Defender of Hawaii; 2 The Mobile Register and Cuba Libre; 3 Daniel Augustus Tompkins and China; 4 The Anglo-Saxon Bond of John W. Davis; 5 The Southern Council on International Relations; 6 The Expanding South; Essay on Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant  McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to  develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the  world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have  encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their  experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have  fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that  southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a  mission to extend the American way of life