The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition Paperback - 2007
by Edward L. Ayers
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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 - a combination of progress and reaction that defined the contradictory promise of the New South. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts - a time of progress and repression, of new industries and old ways. 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. Here is the local Baptist congregation, the country store, the tobacco-stained second-class railroad car, the rise of Populism: the teeming, nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages. And central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement. Ayers weaves all thesedetails into the contradictory story of the New South, showing how the region developed the patterns it was to follow for the next fifty years. When Edward Ayers published Vengeance & Justice, a landmark study of crime and punishment in the nineteenth-century South, he received universal acclaim. Now he provides an unforgettable account of the New South - a land with one foot in the future and the other in the past.
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- Title The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition
- Author Edward L. Ayers
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 15th anniversary
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Box W2
- Date 2007-09-07
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780195326888 / 0195326881
- Weight 1.84 lbs (0.83 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.62 x 1.5 in (23.27 x 16.81 x 3.81 cm)
- Reading level 1400
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: South
- Library of Congress subjects Southern States - History - 1865-1951, Southern States - Civilization - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007282280
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.041
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