The problem South : region, empire, and the new liberal state, 1880-1930 / Natalie J. Ring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ring, Natalie J.

Series:

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--Southern States--History.

Liberalism.

Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945.

Southern States--Economic conditions.

Southern States--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Summary:

For most historians, the hostilities of the Civil War gave way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion. Ring contends this buoyant mythology competed with an equally powerful representation of the backward Problem South--one that resisted reformation by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts.

Contents:

Regional, national, and global designs

The "Southern problem" and readjustment

The menace of the diseased South

The white plague of cotton

The poor white problem as the "new race question"

The "race problem" and the fiction of the color line

The enduring paradox of the South.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613586056

9781280490828

1280490829

9780820344027

0820344028

OCLC:

786176229