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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953535703321

Autore

Harris J. William <1946->

Titolo

Deep Souths : Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island society in the age of segregation / / J. William Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

ISBN

9780801875816

0801875811

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 454 p., [26] p. of plates ) : ill., maps ;

Disciplina

975

Soggetti

African Americans - Segregation - Southern States

African Americans - Southern States - Economic conditions

African Americans - Southern States - Politics and government

Capitalism - Southern States - History

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Southern States - History

Agriculture and politics - Southern States - History

Southern States History 1865-1951

Southern States Race relations

Southern States Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I 1876-1896 -- Chapter 1 Land and Labor in New South Countrysides -- Chapter 2 ''A White Man's Country'' -- Chapter 3 The Populist Challenge -- PART II 1897-1918 -- Chapter 4 Capital at Work, Capitalists at Play -- Chapter 5 Culture, Race, and Class in the Segregation Era -- Chapter 6 War's Challenge to Jim Crow Citizenship -- PART III 1919-1939 -- Chapter 7 Twilight in Cotton's Kingdom -- Chapter 8 ''Discord, dissension, and hatred'' -- Chapter 9 ''Uncle Sam is my shepherd'' -- Conclusion Deep South Histories -- Coda Endings -- APPENDIX Charts and Tables -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- ESSAY ON SOURCES -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book succeeds admirably in... show[ing] that far from being static during the years between Reconstruction and the Second World War,



the southern states were rapidly changing... It would be hard to find a better ground-level account." -- Times Literary Supplement.