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The Resource Southern communities : identity, conflict, and memory in the American South, edited by Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart

Southern communities : identity, conflict, and memory in the American South, edited by Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart

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"Building upon recent scholarship, this anthology explores the nature of community in the American South during the long nineteenth century. The fourteen essays, written and compiled in honor of historian John C. Inscoe, define community as more than a place or a nostalgic longing for a lost way of life; instead, they view community as a web of social relationships, both voluntary and coercive. Importantly, the contributors recognize that there was never a singular Southern community. A diverse population of Southerners built a multitude of communities across the region. Neither do the contributors romanticize nineteenth-century communities, pointing out that they were often rife with discord and competition. The collected essays analyze Southern communities through identity formation, conflict, and memory. The essays in the first section chronicle the construction of four communities before and during the Civil War: the enslaved, the slaveholding, the Confederate, and the emotional. The second section includes six essays that examine the role that civil war, emancipation, and modernization played in challenging community cohesion, while the final section explores how white southerners often turned to memory and nostalgia to reconstruct communities in ways that preserved the Old South's racial and gender status quo well into the twentieth century. Stephen Berry's afterword highlights the career of John Inscoe"--
Language
eng
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Extent
284 pages
Contents
  • Introduction: Southern communities during the long nineteenth century / Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart
  • Creating communities. Gullah and Ebo: reconsidering early Lowcountry African American communities / Ras Michael Brown ; The ties that bind: slaveholding kinship networks in the Toe Valley / Kevin W. Young ; Divided loyalties: the Fain family in an East Tennessee civil war / Katharine S. Dahlstrand ; An emotional rebellion: wrecking the Old South's emotional community / Kyle N. Osborn
  • Conflicting communities. A slaveholding unionist in the secession crisis: Reverend Dr. George Junkin and Lexington, Virginia, in peace and civil war / Barton A. Myers
  • "In search of all that was near and dear to me": desertion as a window into community divisions in Caldwell County during the Civil War / Judkin Browning ; Fighting the "Laurel War": the Civil War inside the Henry household / Steven E. Nash ; Reinterpreting John Noland: community coercion theory and the black Confederate debate / Matthew C. Hulbert ; "Full of danger to the community": driving the Mormons from Brasstown in late nineteenth-century North Carolina / Mary Ella Engel
  • Community and the commons: Richmond Pearson and the Buncombe County stock law revolt of 1885-87 / Luke Manget
  • Re-creating communities. Too south of the South: a Louisiana family searches for community in Cuba / Robert C. Poister ; "Yankees invade the South again": race, reconciliation, and the 1913 national Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Chattanooga, Tennessee / Samuel B. McGuire ; The Lucy Cobb Institute: Mildred Lewis Rutherford and her mission to preserve an idealized southern community / Katherine E. Rohrer
  • Rocks in a whirlwind: protest and alienation in southern autobiography / George W. Justice
  • Afterword: The Inscoe connection / Stephen Berry
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9780820355122
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Southern communities : identity, conflict, and memory in the American South
Title
Southern communities
Title remainder
identity, conflict, and memory in the American South
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edited by Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart
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Language
eng
Summary
"Building upon recent scholarship, this anthology explores the nature of community in the American South during the long nineteenth century. The fourteen essays, written and compiled in honor of historian John C. Inscoe, define community as more than a place or a nostalgic longing for a lost way of life; instead, they view community as a web of social relationships, both voluntary and coercive. Importantly, the contributors recognize that there was never a singular Southern community. A diverse population of Southerners built a multitude of communities across the region. Neither do the contributors romanticize nineteenth-century communities, pointing out that they were often rife with discord and competition. The collected essays analyze Southern communities through identity formation, conflict, and memory. The essays in the first section chronicle the construction of four communities before and during the Civil War: the enslaved, the slaveholding, the Confederate, and the emotional. The second section includes six essays that examine the role that civil war, emancipation, and modernization played in challenging community cohesion, while the final section explores how white southerners often turned to memory and nostalgia to reconstruct communities in ways that preserved the Old South's racial and gender status quo well into the twentieth century. Stephen Berry's afterword highlights the career of John Inscoe"--
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index present
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non fiction
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bibliography
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1951-
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  • Nash, Steven E.,
  • Stewart, Bruce E.,
  • Inscoe, John C.
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  • Community life
  • Southern States
  • Southern States
  • Community life
  • Manners and customs
  • Southern States
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Southern communities : identity, conflict, and memory in the American South, edited by Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Southern communities during the long nineteenth century / Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart -- Creating communities. Gullah and Ebo: reconsidering early Lowcountry African American communities / Ras Michael Brown ; The ties that bind: slaveholding kinship networks in the Toe Valley / Kevin W. Young ; Divided loyalties: the Fain family in an East Tennessee civil war / Katharine S. Dahlstrand ; An emotional rebellion: wrecking the Old South's emotional community / Kyle N. Osborn -- Conflicting communities. A slaveholding unionist in the secession crisis: Reverend Dr. George Junkin and Lexington, Virginia, in peace and civil war / Barton A. Myers -- "In search of all that was near and dear to me": desertion as a window into community divisions in Caldwell County during the Civil War / Judkin Browning ; Fighting the "Laurel War": the Civil War inside the Henry household / Steven E. Nash ; Reinterpreting John Noland: community coercion theory and the black Confederate debate / Matthew C. Hulbert ; "Full of danger to the community": driving the Mormons from Brasstown in late nineteenth-century North Carolina / Mary Ella Engel -- Community and the commons: Richmond Pearson and the Buncombe County stock law revolt of 1885-87 / Luke Manget -- Re-creating communities. Too south of the South: a Louisiana family searches for community in Cuba / Robert C. Poister ; "Yankees invade the South again": race, reconciliation, and the 1913 national Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Chattanooga, Tennessee / Samuel B. McGuire ; The Lucy Cobb Institute: Mildred Lewis Rutherford and her mission to preserve an idealized southern community / Katherine E. Rohrer -- Rocks in a whirlwind: protest and alienation in southern autobiography / George W. Justice -- Afterword: The Inscoe connection / Stephen Berry
Control code
1052874508
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
284 pages
Isbn
9780820355122
Lccn
2018054029
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1052874508
Label
Southern communities : identity, conflict, and memory in the American South, edited by Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Southern communities during the long nineteenth century / Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart -- Creating communities. Gullah and Ebo: reconsidering early Lowcountry African American communities / Ras Michael Brown ; The ties that bind: slaveholding kinship networks in the Toe Valley / Kevin W. Young ; Divided loyalties: the Fain family in an East Tennessee civil war / Katharine S. Dahlstrand ; An emotional rebellion: wrecking the Old South's emotional community / Kyle N. Osborn -- Conflicting communities. A slaveholding unionist in the secession crisis: Reverend Dr. George Junkin and Lexington, Virginia, in peace and civil war / Barton A. Myers -- "In search of all that was near and dear to me": desertion as a window into community divisions in Caldwell County during the Civil War / Judkin Browning ; Fighting the "Laurel War": the Civil War inside the Henry household / Steven E. Nash ; Reinterpreting John Noland: community coercion theory and the black Confederate debate / Matthew C. Hulbert ; "Full of danger to the community": driving the Mormons from Brasstown in late nineteenth-century North Carolina / Mary Ella Engel -- Community and the commons: Richmond Pearson and the Buncombe County stock law revolt of 1885-87 / Luke Manget -- Re-creating communities. Too south of the South: a Louisiana family searches for community in Cuba / Robert C. Poister ; "Yankees invade the South again": race, reconciliation, and the 1913 national Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Chattanooga, Tennessee / Samuel B. McGuire ; The Lucy Cobb Institute: Mildred Lewis Rutherford and her mission to preserve an idealized southern community / Katherine E. Rohrer -- Rocks in a whirlwind: protest and alienation in southern autobiography / George W. Justice -- Afterword: The Inscoe connection / Stephen Berry
Control code
1052874508
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
284 pages
Isbn
9780820355122
Lccn
2018054029
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1052874508

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