The new South faces the world : foreign affairs and the Southern sense of self, 1877-1950 / Tennant S. McWilliams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliams, Tennant S., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internationalists--Southern States--History.

Internationalists.

United States--Foreign relations--1865-.

United States.

Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.

Southern States.

Southern States--Relations--Foreign countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mission and the Burden; 1 James H. Blount, Paramount Defender of Hawaii; 2 The Mobile Register and Cuba Libre; 3 Daniel Augustus Tompkins and China; 4 The Anglo-Saxon Bond of John W. Davis; 5 The Southern Council on International Relations; 6 The Expanding South; Essay on Sources; Index

Notes:

Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8208-9

OCLC:

808806403