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A history of the Old South; the emergence of a reluctant nation.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Macmillan [1975]Edition: 3d edDescription: xv, 544 p. illus. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0023313102
  • 9780023313103
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F213 .E2 1975
Contents:
The Southerners -- The evolution of the plantation -- The piedmont society -- The rise of a Native aristocracy -- The embellishment of life -- The movement for independence from the British empire -- Through the Cumberland Gap -- Ascendancy of the Southern federalists -- The great generation -- The creoles become Southerners -- The war hawks and expansion -- The maturity of the plantation -- Slave labor -- was it profitable? -- The nature of the Southern slave system and of the slave -- The middle class and the disadvantaged -- The hero of the common man -- The two party system of the Old South -- Calhoun and State' rights -- Exuberant imperialism -- changing attitudes toward slavery -- The Southern way of life -- Toward a more diversified economy -- Molding the Southern mind -- The growing alienation -- Establishing a Southern republic.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F213.E2 1975 1 Available 33710001090476

Bibliography: p. 511-535.

The Southerners -- The evolution of the plantation -- The piedmont society -- The rise of a Native aristocracy -- The embellishment of life -- The movement for independence from the British empire -- Through the Cumberland Gap -- Ascendancy of the Southern federalists -- The great generation -- The creoles become Southerners -- The war hawks and expansion -- The maturity of the plantation -- Slave labor -- was it profitable? -- The nature of the Southern slave system and of the slave -- The middle class and the disadvantaged -- The hero of the common man -- The two party system of the Old South -- Calhoun and State' rights -- Exuberant imperialism -- changing attitudes toward slavery -- The Southern way of life -- Toward a more diversified economy -- Molding the Southern mind -- The growing alienation -- Establishing a Southern republic.