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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778372503321

Autore

Ayers Edward L. <1953->

Titolo

The promise of the New South [[electronic resource] ] : life after Reconstruction / / Edward L. Ayers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-771559-1

0-19-988683-0

0-19-503756-1

1-281-16555-7

9786611165550

0-19-972455-5

1-4356-4102-7

Edizione

[15th anniversary ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (592 p.)

Disciplina

975/.04

Soggetti

Southern States History 19th century

Southern States History 1865-1951

Southern States Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE. Junction; CHAPTER TWO. Election News; CHAPTER THREE. In Town; CHAPTER FOUR. Dry Goods; CHAPTER FIVE. Mill and Mine; CHAPTER SIX. In Black and White; CHAPTER SEVEN. Faith; CHAPTER EIGHT. Out in the Country; CHAPTER NINE. Alliances; CHAPTER TEN. Populism; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Turning of the Tide; CHAPTER TWELVE. Reunion and Reaction; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Books; CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Voices; CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Twentieth Century Limited; EPILOGUE; THOUGHTS ON THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX; ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890's, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology



and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to ten