Name/Title
The Promise of the New South: Live After ReconstructionEntry/Object ID
2010.002.094Description
In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnic and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century--a combination of progress and reaction that defined the contradictory promise of the New South. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts--a time of progress and repression, of new industries and old ways. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic "Redeemers" swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Here is the local Baptist congregation, the country store, the tobacco-stained second-class railroad car, the rise of Populism: the teeming, nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages. And central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement. Ayers weaves all these details into the contradictory story of the New South, showing how the region developed the patterns it was to follow for the next fifty years.
xii, 572 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2010.002.Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2010)Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Southern States--History--1865-1951Book Details
Author
Ayers, Edward L., 1953-Publisher
Oxford University PressDate Published
1992Call No.
F215 .A94 1992ISBN
0195037561LCCN
91033070Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Category
PermanentGeneral Notes
Note
Notes: By Edward L. Ayers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Created By
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