Laura Edwards, A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, £50.00 hardback, £19.99 paperback). Pp. 212. isbn 978 1 1070 0879 3, 978 1 1074 0134 1. - Martin Ruef, Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014, £24.95 hardback, £19.95 paperback). Pp. 285. isbn 978 0 6911 6277 5, 978 0 6911 7359 7.

The landscapes and cityscapes of the sub-tropical Southern United States, with their opulent nature, exuberant cities, boisterous cultural diversity and troubled history of conflict and violence have long offered an alluring locale for Gothic narratives. This article explores the ways in which <em>The Southern Vampire Mysteries</em> (2001–2013) – the best-selling literary series by Charlaine Harris and the basis for the HBO TV series <em>True Blood</em> – construct the Gothicised imageries of the American South as the terrain of confusing ambivalences; of glamour and exoticism, death and the uncanny. Informed by the discourses of tropicality, Tropical and Urban Gothic and exotic tourism – and the ways they interweave with the concept of Otherness – the paper seeks to illuminate the process of interrelating and consequently exoticising the figure of the Other and Southern sub-tropical land- and cityscapes. It also examines the tropes of urban interspecies relations articulated in the series as a metaphor for the Southern racial/ethnic heritage with its anxieties of miscegenation, transgression and “excessive” heterogeneity. A particular emphasis is placed on the accounts of New Orleans as the liminal space of cultural blending and touristic exploration of the figure of the Other.

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Collecting locally : Walker Evans's photographs of Alabama in Alabama institutions

10.32920/ryerson.14644761 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mallory Lapointe Taylor

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cultural Context ◽

American South ◽

The United States ◽

History Of Photography ◽

The Arts ◽

Walker Evans ◽

History Of ◽

The American South

Within the United States, the American South can be perceived as its own entity. From the arts to Southern cuisine, the South commands attention with its own history, myths and culture. Within the history of photography, Walker Evans's photographs of Alabama are arguably some of the most culturally significant images taken of the state and its residents. This thesis investigates how photographs of Alabama are collected in the same locality. By examining the collecting practices of four Alabama institutions in regards to photographs in general, and Walker Evans specifically, this case study will expand on the question of how photographs, in a Southern cultural context, work to create a sense of place and attachment to local geography.

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At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South. By Donald G. Mathews. Cambridge Studies on the American South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ix + 347 pp. $99.97 cloth; $29.99 paper.

Church History ◽

10.1017/s0009640718001373 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 87 (2) ◽

pp. 606-608

Author(s):

Michael J. Pfeifer

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

American South ◽

Cambridge University ◽

The American South

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Slavery and Scientific Management

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700079213 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 811-824 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

R. Keith Aufhauser

Keyword(s):

Economic History ◽

American South ◽

Scientific Management ◽

Productivity Increase ◽

History Of ◽

The American South ◽

The One ◽

Early Discussion ◽

Slave Mode ◽

Mode Of Production

In the last few years, the controversy over the economic history of slavery has centered about two positions. On the one hand, Genovese has argued that the slave mode of production was fundamentally antagonistic to the bourgeois mode and that the conflicts between the two systems doomed slavery to a nineteenth-century grave. On the other hand, Conrad and Meyer spawned many studies which, on the whole, denied that any specifically economic difficulties resulted from the fact that the American south was based on slave labor. Against Genovese's original claim that “the material basis of the planters' power was giving way,” the statistical evidence indicated that the profits of the slave plantation were as high as those on non-slave business investments, and that the diffusion of technological changes was rapid enough to cause a rate of productivity increase equal to that of all but the most rapidly growing sectors of the free economy. Sheer volume supplemented the elegance of the early discussion and our knowledge of the slave economy expanded considerably.

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Buchbesprechungen

Der Staat ◽

10.3790/staa.59.3.463 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 463-484

Keyword(s):

Constitutional Law ◽

Legal History ◽

Central Banking ◽

Regulatory State ◽

Constitutional Amendments ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Oxford University ◽

Princeton University ◽

Magna Carta ◽

Oxford University Press

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