The Old South's Modern Worlds

Introduction Reimagining the Old South- L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers Part One: The South in a World of Nations Ch 1- Antebellum Southerners and the National Idea- Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia) Ch 2- A World Safe for Modernity: Antebellum Southern Proslavery Intellectuals Confront Great Britain- Matthew Mason (Brigham Young University) Ch 3- The Burdens and Opportunities of Interdependence: The Political Economies of the Planter Class- Brian Schoen Part Two: Slavery in a Modernizing Society Ch 4- "A Disposition to Work": Rural Enslaved Laborers on the Eve of the Civil War- Larry E. Hudson, Jr. (University of Rochester) Ch 5- Rethinking the Slave Trade: Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South- Steven Deyle (University of Houston) Ch 6- The Pregnant Economies of the Border South, 1840-1860: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Possibilities of Slave Labor Expansion- James L. Huston (Oklahoma State University) Part Three: Material Progress and Its Discontents Ch 7- The Southern Path to Modern Cities: Urbanization in the Slave States- Frank Towers Ch 8- "Swerve Me?": The South, Railroads, and The Rush to Modernity- William G. Thomas (University of Nebraska- Lincoln) Ch 9- Industry and Its Laborers, Free and Slave in Late Antebellum Virginia-L. Diane Barnes Part Four: The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture Ch 10- Zion in Black and White: African American Evangelicals and Missionary Work in the Old South- Charles F. Irons (Elon University) Ch 11- The Return of the Native: Innovative Traditions in the Southeast- Andrew K. Frank (Florida State University) Ch 12- Sex, Self, and the Performance of Patriarchal Manhood in the Old South- Craig Thompson Friend (North Carolina State University) Part Five: The Long View of the Old South Ch 13- Counterpoint: What if Genovese is Right? The Pre-Modern Outlook of Southern Planters- Marc Egnal (York University, Canada) Ch 14- The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage- Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond) Afterword -Michael O'Brien (University of Cambridge) Conclusion The Future of the Old South- L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers