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  • Deep South Democrats

    Paradoxical Politics in the Age of Civil Rights

    par James O. Heath, David Goldfield ...
    Collections series Making the Modern South
    James O. Heath’s Deep South Democrats is the story of three men who redefined the southern political landscape through unique voting records in health, housing, labor, and education. Olin Johnston of South Carolina and John Sparkman and Lister Hill of Alabama contributed to the massive impact of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in the southern states, though the reforms didn’t affect just their ... En savoir plus

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  • America Aflame

    How the Civil War Created a Nation

    par Mr David Goldfield ...
    In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the firstmajor new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson'sBattle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the waras a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatestfailure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelicalreligion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening ... En savoir plus

    $13.49 CAD

  • Confederate Cities

    The Urban South During the Civil War Era

    Modifié par Andrew L. Slap, Frank Towers ...
    Collections series Historical Studies of Urban America
    When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war, even though cities hosted, enabled, and shaped Southern society as much as they did in the North ... En savoir plus

    $28.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Fight for Visibility

    Black Memphis Confronts the Lost Cause

    par Donna E. Reeves, David Goldfield ...
    Collections series Making the Modern South
    In A Fight for Visibility, Donna E. Reeves explores how Black Memphians fought to maintain dignity and self-respect during the post-Reconstruction period and Jim Crow era by challenging the negative images of African Americans produced by Confederate loyalists as part of the Lost Cause narrative.After the Civil War, Black Memphians actively struggled against the white Memphis establishment, which ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Sandhill Cities

    Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia

    par J. Mark Souther, David Goldfield ...
    Collections series Making the Modern South
    Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmental history, J. Mark Souther narrates urban boosters’ hopes and actions in their pursuit of metropolitan stature in three midsized cities situated along the fall line running through the middle of the state. ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike

    Public Sector Unionism and the Fight against Sunshine State Conservatism

    par Jody Baxter Noll, David Goldfield ...
    Collections series Making the Modern South
    In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country’s first statewide teachers’ strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and gaining collective bargaining rights for all public sector employees. Even as the influence of industrial labor unions decreased across the country, ... En savoir plus

    $22.39 CAD

  • Spying on Students

    The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South

    par Gregg L. Michel, David Goldfield ...
    Collections series Making the Modern South
    Gregg L. Michel’s Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition to the Vietnam War, and embraced the counterculture’s rejection of conventions and norms. While African ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Still Fighting the Civil War

    The American South and Southern History

    par David Goldfield ...
    Collections series
    In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Going to Hell to Get the Devil

    The 1972 Charlotte Three Case and the Freedom Struggle in a Sunbelt City

    par J. Christopher Schutz, David Goldfield ...
    Collections series Making the Modern South
    The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious and dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists, who became known as the “Charlotte Three.” The charges against the men garnered interest from federal law enforcement agents, ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South

    African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920–1945

    par Brandon T. Jett, David Goldfield ...
    Collections series Making the Modern South
    Winner of the Florida Book Award general nonfiction categoryThroughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have devoted much attention to law enforcement’s ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Black, White, and Southern

    Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present

    par David Goldfield ...
    In "Black, White, and Southern," David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South's unique culture. Indeed, it is Goldfield's contention that the civil rights crusade has strengthened the South's cultural ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Charlotte, NC

    The Global Evolution of a New South City

    par William Graves, Heather A. Smith, Derek H. Alderman, Owen J. Furuseth, José L.S. Gámez, David Goldfield, Tom Hanchett, Isaac Heard Jr., Gerald L. Ingalls0, Ronald V. Kalafsky1, Jonathan Kozar2, Matthew D. Lassiter3, Emily Thomas Livingstone4, Ronald L. Mitchelson5, Tyrel G. Moore6, Stephen Samuel Smith7, David Walters8 ...
    The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD