Britain and the American South [[electronic resource] ] : from colonialism to rock and roll / / essays by Franklin T. Lambert ... [et al.] ; edited by Joseph P. Ward

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779100203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003
• ISBN: 1-283-43455-5; 9786613434555; 1-60473-600-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Collana: Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series
• Altri autori (Persone): LambertFranklin T; WardJoseph P. <1965->
• Disciplina: 303.48/275041/09
• Soggetti: British - Southern States - History; Public opinion - Great Britain - History; Southern States Relations Great Britain Congresses; Great Britain Relations Southern States Congresses; Southern States Civilization Congresses; Southern States Foreign public opinion, British Congresses
• 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 (p. 229-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword : empire building and empire wrecking / Joseph P. Ward -- Virginia's religious revolution : from established monopoly to free marketplace / Franklin T. Lambert -- Power and authority in the colonial South : the English legacy and its contradictions / Holly Brewer -- "Like a stone wall never to be broke" : the British-Indian boundary line with the Creek Indians, 1763-1773 / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- Carolinians abroad : cultivating English identities from the colonial lower South / S. Max Edelson -- The American South and English print satire, 1760-1865 / Marcus Wood -- British views of the confederacy / R.J.M. Blackett -- The South and the British left, 1930-1960 / Hugh Wilford -- "By Elvis and all the saints" : images of the American South in the world of 1950s British popular music / Brian Ward -- Afterword : on the irrelevance of knights / Michael O'Brien.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll, historians analyze central aspects of the cultural exchanges between Britain and the American South. Along with the Spanish and the French, the British were among the first Europeans to have contact with the native peoples in what would come to be known as the American South. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British were intensively engaged in colonizing much of the region and developing its economy. The American Revolution severed the governmental links between Britain and its Southern colonies, but econ