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The U.S. South and Europe
Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Contributions by Cornelis A. van Minnen, Manfred Berg, William Link, Thomas Clark, Daniel Nagel, Kathleen Hilliard, Lawrence T. McDonnell, Don H. Doyle, Stefano Luconi, Sarah L. Silkey, William R. Glass, Melvyn Stokes, Louis Mazzari, Matthias Reiss, Clive Webb, Daniel Geary and Jennifer Sutton
In The U.S. South and Europe, editors Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg have assembled contributions that interpret a number of political, cultural, and religious aspects of the transatlantic relationship during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors discuss a variety of subjects, including European colonization, travel accounts of southerners visiting Europe, and the experiences of German immigrants who settled in the South. The collection also examines slavery, foreign recognition of the Confederacy as a sovereign government, the lynching of African Americans and Italian immigrants, and transatlantic religious fundamentalism. Finally, it addresses international perceptions of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement as a framework for understanding race relations in the United Kingdom after World War II. Featuring contributions from leading scholars based in the United States and Europe, this illuminating volume explores the South from an international perspective and offers a new context from which to consider the region's history.
About the Authors
Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American history of the Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is the author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America and "The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.
Reviews
"Americans who care about their country's history will find this book an eye-opener. Two outstanding European scholars have skillfully put together an inviting array of explorations—a number of them brilliantly conceived—that create a radiant prism. By scrutinizing U.S. events from a European perspective, they offer readers a rare opportunity to rethink the American past."—William E Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan Professor of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The U.S. South and Europe is an unusually timely book because it illuminates the Global South, a major new scholarly initiative in the study of the South. The breadth of coverage is striking and makes the volume useful in introducing a wide audience to the international context of the South. That context has always been operating, but the editors bring its dynamics into full light as never before. New perspectives abound as readers meet southern travelers abroad, read about the relationship between the American civil rights movement and race relations overseas, and explore the transatlantic framework for fundamentalism. The volume makes significant contributions to understanding such key themes in southern history as race relations, religion, the Civil War, and violence."—Charles R. Wilson, Kelly Gene Cook, Sr. Chair in History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi
"Van Minnen and Berg have edited a fine collection of essays that cover various interactions between the southern US and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries....The quality of the essays in anthologies is often uneven. However, all of these essays are crisply written, well-argued, supported through primary research, and cognizant of extant historiography."—Choice
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Other Titles by Louis Mazzari
Preface To Peasantry
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The Lost State of Franklin
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This is Home Now
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