| Edition |
15th anniversary ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 579 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, 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 tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. 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. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crows laws and disfranchisement. The teeming nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages. When this book first appeared in 1992, it won a broad array of prizes and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The citation for the National Book Award declaredPromise of the New Southa vivid and masterfully detailed picture of the evolution of a new society. The Atlanticcalled it "one of the broadest and most original interpretations of southern history of the past twenty years. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951.
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1865-1951 |
| Subject |
Southern States -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1951 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ayers, Edward L., 1953- Promise of the New South. 15th anniversary ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780195326871 0195326873 (DLC) 2007282280 (OCoLC)156816854 |
| ISBN |
9780199724550 (electronic book) |
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0199724555 (electronic book) |
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9780195326888 |
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0195326881 |
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9780195326871 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0195326873 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9781435641020 (electronic book) |
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1435641027 (electronic book) |
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