Author: Christopher Newman HALL
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Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Cornelis A. van Minnen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a catalyst for the nation's only civil war, and later, as a battleground in violent civil rights conflicts. Once considered isolated and benighted by the international community, the South has recently evoked considerable interest among popular audiences and academic observers on both sides of the Atlantic. In The U.S. South and Europe, editors Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg have assembled contributions that interpret a number of political, cultural, and religious aspects of the transatlantic relationship during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors discuss a variety of subjects, including European colonization, travel accounts of southerners visiting Europe, and the experiences of German immigrants who settled in the South. The collection also examines slavery, foreign recognition of the Confederacy as a sovereign government, the lynching of African Americans and Italian immigrants, and transatlantic religious fundamentalism. Finally, it addresses international perceptions of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement as a framework for understanding race relations in the United Kingdom after World War II. Featuring contributions from leading scholars based in the United States and Europe, this illuminating volume explores the South from an international perspective and offers a new context from which to consider the region's history.

Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Author: Albert M. Hyamson
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
ISBN: 9780710015808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 679

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Author: Charles R. Rode
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1014

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Author: James L. Huston
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807167452
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920 examines comparisons between American ideals of a classless society and the contrasting British class system, which accepted the existence of inequalities. When the United States declared political independence in 1776, they also announced repudiation of social institutions based on inequality, opting instead for (an ill-defined) equality. British travelers to the United States after 1776 and up to 1920 continuously wrote about how equality was faring in the United States and compared it to the operation of inequality in England, Scotland, and Ireland. They laid bare the actual outcomes of a system of equality versus one of inequality; this was no theoretical, intellectual exercise but instead constituted a recording of actual human practices. By the end of the nineteenth century, the defects of a system of inequality became clear in manners, social interchanges between income classes, general education levels, religious convictions, and the general energy of a people. The exploration of these nineteenth-century comparisons has great relevance for today's persistent debates about social inequities and their solutions.

Author: Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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