Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Peter McCandless

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffe... Lees meer

Thomas Jefferson

Wilson Jeremiah Moses

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Sch... Lees meer

Performing Disunion

Lawrence T McDonnell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This book traces how and why the secession of the South during the American Civil War was accomplished at ground level through the actions of ordinary... Lees meer

Death and the American South

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range... Lees meer

Gruesome Looking Objects

Elijah Gaddis

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• The 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional his... Lees meer

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Sebastian N Page

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Based on sweeping research in six languages, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War offers the first comprehensive, comparative account of nine... Lees meer

Freedom's Crescent

John C Rodrigue

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• The Lower Mississippi Valley is more than just a distinct geographical region of the United States; it was central to the outcome of the Civil War and... Lees meer

Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South

Jonathan Daniel Wells

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into sou... Lees meer

The Sweetness of Life

Eugene D Genovese

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese... Lees meer

Masterless Men

Keri Leigh Merritt

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on s... Lees meer

The Georgia Peach

William Thomas Okie

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easi... Lees meer

Masters, Slaves, and Exchange

Kathleen M Hilliard

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean... Lees meer

Rethinking American Emancipation

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, an event that soon became a bold statement of presidential power, a drama... Lees meer

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Damian Alan Pargas

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines ... Lees meer

Beyond the Rope

Karlos K Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing a... Lees meer

Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880

Luke E Harlow

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. In it, Luke E. Harlow argues that ongoing conflict over t... Lees meer

Freedom in a Slave Society

Johanna Nicol Shields

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study ... Lees meer

Mastering America

Robert E Bonner

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Mastering America recounts efforts of "proslavery nationalists" to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationa... Lees meer

Reviewing the South

Sarah Gardner

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• The American South received increased attention from national commentators during the interwar era. Beginning in the 1920s, the proliferation of daily... Lees meer

Freedom Seekers

Damian Alan Pargas

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• In this fascinating book, Damian Alan Pargas introduces a new conceptualization of 'spaces of freedom' for fugitive slaves in North America between 18... Lees meer

Reviewing the South

Sarah Gardner

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• The American South received increased attention from national commentators during the interwar era. Beginning in the 1920s, the proliferation of daily... Lees meer

The Georgia Peach

William Thomas Okie

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easi... Lees meer

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Damian Alan Pargas

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines ... Lees meer

Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress

Ari Helo

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Could Jefferson claim any consistency in his advocacy of democracy and the rights of man while remaining one of the largest slaveholders in Virginia? ... Lees meer