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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818498303321

Autore

Ring Natalie J

Titolo

The problem South : region, empire, and the new liberal state, 1880-1930 / / Natalie J. Ring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49082-9

9786613586056

0-8203-4402-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

Disciplina

320.510975

Soggetti

Liberalism - Southern States - History

Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950

Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945

Southern States Economic conditions

Southern States Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Regional, national, and global designs -- The "Southern problem" and readjustment -- The menace of the diseased South -- The white plague of cotton -- The poor white problem as the "new race question" -- The "race problem" and the fiction of the color line -- The enduring paradox of the South.

Sommario/riassunto

For most historians, the hostilities of the Civil War gave way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion. Ring contends this buoyant mythology competed with an equally powerful representation of the backward Problem South--one that resisted reformation by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts.