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

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

Luke E Harlow

• Paperback | 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

Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Peter McCandless

• Hardcover | 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

Masters, Slaves, and Exchange

Kathleen M Hilliard

• Hardcover | 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

War Stuff

Joan E Cashin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• In this path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and material re... Lees meer

Mastering America

Robert Bonner

• Hardcover | 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

Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion

Christopher Michael Curtis

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Jefferson's Freeholders explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It focu... Lees meer

Rethinking American Emancipation

• Paperback | 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

Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood

Brian Steele

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This book emphasizes the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose po... Lees meer

Rebels against the Confederacy

Barton A Myers

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for surviv... 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

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

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

Freedom's Crescent

John C Rodrigue

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

Claiming the Union

Susanna Michele Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male and female; elite ... 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

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

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

Carolina's Golden Fields

Hayden R Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies on the American South
• This book examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from their inception at the turn of the se... 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

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

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