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xiii, 608 pages ; 23 cm |
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"Interpreting Southern Histories" is a collection of historiographical essays that updates and expands upon the iconic volumes "Writing Southern History" (1967) and "Interpreting Southern History" (1987), both published by Louisiana State University Press. This third volume includes nineteen essays and an introduction co-written by the most prominent historians working in southern history today. Two scholars, typically at different stages in their careers, collaboratively wrote each essay, providing a broad knowledge of the most recent historiography and expansive visions for historiographical contexts. Each essay connects intellectually with the earlier volumes but avoids unnecessary redundancy. Each also attends to ways in which the cultural turn of the 1980s and 1990s introduced the use of language and cultural symbols, including the influence of gender studies, postcolonial studies, and memory studies. The essays also broadly consider the gradual normalization of the South, relying less on conceptualizing the South as a distinct region and more on contextualizing it within national and global historiographies. In such consideration, however, the contributors also note where the historiography continues to insist on a distinctive "South." This book will be essential reading for every scholar and serious student of southern history"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Native Homelands, Imperial Rivalries, And Contested Legacies Of The Early South / Alejandra Dubcovsky and Daniel H. Usner -- Oriented Towards The Ocean : The Colonial South / Noeleen McIlvenna and Justin Roberts -- The South In The Revolutionary Era And Early Republic / Brian Steele and Peter S. Onuf -- Nineteenth-Century Enslavement Of Africans And African Americans In The United States / Vanessa M. Holden and Edward E. Baptist -- Gender And Sexuality In The Old South / Catherine Clinton and Emily West -- On The Banks Of The James Or The Congaree : Antebellum Political Economy / Harry L. Watson and John D. Majewski -- From Reconciliation To Reckoning : Historiography of the South and the Civil War / Lesley J. Gordon and Stephen Berry -- Against Synthesis : Diverse Approaches to the History of Reconstruction / Bruce E. Baker and Elaine S. Frantz -- The Historiography Of The Black South From Reconstruction to Jim Crow / Blair L.M. Kelley and Claudrena N. Harold -- New stories for a "New South" : Race-Making, Ethnic Diversity, Urbanization, and Gendered Politics / Mikaëla M. Adams and Ted Ownby -- "We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest" : The Civil Rights Movement / Katherine Mellen Charron and Cherisse Jones-Branch -- Gender And Sexuality In The Twentieth-Century South / Blain Roberts and Megan Taylor Shockley -- From the Great Depression To The "End Of Southern History"? / Jennifer Ritterhouse and Jason Morgan Ward -- The South In Global And Transnational Contexts / Don H. Doyle and Marko Maunula -- The Native South / Christina Snyder and Theda Perdue -- Southern Religious History /John M. Giggie and Paul Harvey -- Race, Power, And The Law : Southern Legal and Constitutional History / Sally E. Hadden and Charles L. Zelden -- Southern Environmental History / Kathryn Newfont and William Thomas Okie -- The Transformation Of Southern Intellectual History / Sarah E. Gardner and David Moltke-Hansen. |
| Awards |
"Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award for 2020"--ECIP PDF view. |
| Subject |
Southern States -- Historiography.
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
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Friend, Craig Thompson, editor.
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Glover, Lorri, 1967- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780807172568 hardcover |
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0807172561 hardcover |
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9780807173466 paperback |
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0807173460 paperback |
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