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

• Autore: Ring Natalie J
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 320.510975
• Soggetto topico: Liberalism - Southern States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950; Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945; Southern States Economic conditions; Southern States Economic policy
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The problem South
• ISBN: 1-280-49082-9; 9786613586056; 0-8203-4402-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818498303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.