The promise of the New South : life after Reconstruction / Edward L. Ayers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayers, Edward L., 1953- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--History--1865-1951.

Southern States.

Southern States--Civilization--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (592 p.)

Edition:

15th anniversary ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890's, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to ten

Contents:

CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE. Junction; CHAPTER TWO. Election News; CHAPTER THREE. In Town; CHAPTER FOUR. Dry Goods; CHAPTER FIVE. Mill and Mine; CHAPTER SIX. In Black and White; CHAPTER SEVEN. Faith; CHAPTER EIGHT. Out in the Country; CHAPTER NINE. Alliances; CHAPTER TEN. Populism; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Turning of the Tide; CHAPTER TWELVE. Reunion and Reaction; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Books; CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Voices; CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Twentieth Century Limited; EPILOGUE; THOUGHTS ON THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX; ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Originally published: 1992.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771559-1

0-19-988683-0

0-19-503756-1

1-281-16555-7

9786611165550

0-19-972455-5

1-4356-4102-7

OCLC:

609830389