Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress

by Brian Schoen, Frank Towers, L. Diane Barnes

The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195384024
• ISBN13: 9780195384024
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"