1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459766403321

Autore

Bernath Michael T

Titolo

Confederate minds [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for intellectual independence in the Civil War South / / Michael T. Bernath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0395-0

0-8078-9565-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

973.7/13

Soggetti

American literature - Southern States - History and criticism

Regionalism - Southern States - History - 19th century

Group identity - Southern States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Southern States Intellectual life 19th century

Confederate States of America Intellectual life

Southern States Civilization 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An intellectual call to arms -- The Confederate critique of northern culture -- The birth of Confederate literature -- The campaign for Confederate educational independence -- The high-water mark -- Searching for a Confederate "literature of power" -- Are we a highly civilized people? -- Conclusion: independent in nothing, neutral in everything.

Sommario/riassunto

During the Civil War, Confederates fought for much more than their political independence. They also fought to prove the distinctiveness of the Southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely Southern literature and culture. In this important new book, Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of Southern writers, thinkers, editors, publishers, educators, and ministers--whom he labels Confederate cultural nationalists--in order to trace the rise and fall of a cultural



movement dedicated to liberating the South from its

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974059403321

Autore

Kurtz Marcus J.

Titolo

Free market democracy and the Chilean and Mexican countryside / / Marcus J. Kurtz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14723-9

1-280-47777-6

0-511-19517-6

0-511-19583-4

0-511-19376-9

0-511-32712-9

0-511-51023-3

0-511-19450-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.972

Soggetti

Democracy - Chile

Democracy - Mexico

Free enterprise - Chile

Free enterprise - Mexico

Rural population - Chile

Rural population - Mexico

Political participation - Chile

Political participation - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1 : The framework and theoretical argument. Posing the right questions -- The sectoral foundations of free market democracy -- Part 2 : The cases. Neoliberalism and the transformation of rural society in Chile -- Social capital, organization, political participation, and democratic competition in Chile -- The consolidation of free market



democracy and Chilean electoral competition, 1988-2000 -- Markets and democratization in Mexico : rural politics between corporatism and neoliberalism -- Part 3 : Conclusions and implications. Political competitiveness, organized interests, and the democratic market.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free-market economic reforms in Chile and Mexico have helped to consolidate democratic politics without engendering a backlash against either reform or democratization. This national-level compatibility between free markets and democracy, however, is founded on their rural incompatibility. In the countryside, free-market reforms socially isolate peasants to such a degree that they become unable to organize independently, and are vulnerable to the pressures of local economic elites. This helps to create an electoral coalition behind free-market reforms that is critically based in some of the market's biggest victims: the peasantry. The book concludes that the comparatively stable free-market democracy in Latin America hinges critically on its defects in the countryside; conservative, free-market elites may consent to open politics only if they have a rural electoral redoubt.