Creating an old South : middle Florida's plantation frontier before the Civil War / / Edward E. Baptist

• Autore: Baptist Edward E
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 974.9/05
• Soggetto topico: Plantation life - Florida - History - 19th century; White people - Florida - Social conditions - 19th century; Plantation owners - Florida - History - 19th century; African Americans - Florida - Social conditions - 19th century; Social classes - Florida - History - 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life - Florida; Land settlement - Social aspects - Florida - History - 19th century; Migration, Internal - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Florida History 1821-1865; Florida Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-377) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; Introduction: Origins and Outcomes; 1. The Peculiar Benefits of Florida; 2. Countrymen; 3. Forced Migration; 4. Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida; 5. Jack in the New Ground; 6. Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire; 7. White Men Are Very Uncertain; 8. Creating an Old South; 9. Remaking History; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this volume uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions and settlements that made the plantation South. It explores the myth of an "Old", changeless South which only papered over the struggles.
• Titolo autorizzato: Creating an old South
• ISBN: 979-88-908725-2-4; 0-8078-6003-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814128003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II