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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Contributors | p. xiii |
Introduction: Reimagining the Old South | p. 3 |
The South in a World of Nations | |
Antebellum Southerners and the National Idea | p. 25 |
A World Safe for Modernity: Antebellum Southern Proslavery Intellectuals Confront Great Britain | p. 47 |
The Burdens and Opportunities of Interdependence: The Political Economies of the Planter Class | p. 66 |
Slavery in a Modernizing Society | |
ôA Disposition to Workö: Rural Enslaved Laborers on the Eve of the Civil War | p. 87 |
Rethinking the Slave Trade: Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South | p. 104 |
The Pregnant Economies of the Border South, 1840-1860: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Possibilities of Slave-Labor Expansion | p. 120 |
Material Progress and Its Discontents | |
The Southern Path to Modern Cities: Urbanization in the Slave States | p. 145 |
ôSwerve Me?ö: The South, Railroads, and the Rush to Modernity | p. 166 |
Industry and Its Laborers, Free and Slave in Late-Antebellum Virginia | p. 189 |
The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture | |
Zion in Black and White: African-American Evangelicals and Missionary Work in the Old South | p. 209 |
The Return of the Native: Innovative Traditions in the Southeast | p. 228 |
Sex, Self, and the Performance of Patriarchal Manhood in the Old South | p. 246 |
The Long View of the Old South | |
Counterpoint: What If Genovese Is Right?: The Premodern Outlook of Southern Planters | p. 269 |
The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage | p. 288 |
Afterword | p. 298 |
Conclusion: The Future of the Old South | p. 309 |
Index | p. 317 |
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