Nation Within a Nation
The American South and the Federal Government
Published on 30. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-0-8130-6448-2 (ISBN)
Description
Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography, who examine the causes--realand perceived--for the South's perpetual state of rebellion, which remains oneof its most defining characteristics.
Reviews / Votes
The chapters-individually and collectively-make a powerful case for southern distinctiveness and illustrate the southernization of the relationship between non-southern states and the federal government."-Journal of American Studies"The book is an interesting read for those concerned with the history of the South, but also for those interested in how newer issues such as the US-Mexican border and criminal justice policies fit within the region's history."-New Books in Political Science"Genuinely transnational in scope. . . . Make[s] significant contributions to our understanding of the relationship between the South and the federal government."-Register of the Kentucky Historical SocietyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-6448-2 (9780813064482)
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Person
Glenn Feldman (1962-2015) was professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican and Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Glenn Feldman
Part I. Past to Present
1. First to Secede, Last to Accede: South Carolina's Resistance to the Republic, 1780-Present - Thomas F. Schaller
Part II. Race, War, and Culture
2. Tom Watson and Resistance to Federal War Policies in Georgia during World War I - Zachary C. Smith
3. "Negroes, the New Deal, and . . . Karl Marx": Southern Antistatism in Depression and War - Jason Morgan Ward
4. Dixiecrats, Dissenting Delegates, and the Dying Democratic Party: Mississippi's Right Turn from Roosevelt to Johnson - Rebecca Miller Davis
5. Right Turn? The Republican Party and African American Politics in Post-1965 Mississippi - Chris Danielson
Part III. A Nation within a Nation?
6. Texas Philosophy, Nashville Agrarianism, Reagan Republicanism, and the Neo-Confederacy: The Influence of M. E. Bradford - Fred Arthur Bailey
7. The Evil Empire Within: Southern Nationalism and the Washington Problem - David R. Jansson
Part IV. Economic Development and Reform
8. Getting Farmers-and Tourists-"Out of the Mud": Alabama's Nineteenth-Century Experience with Public Projects and Its Response to the Federal Road Aid Acts of 1916 and 1921 - Martin T. Olliff
9. "From Nothin' to Somethin'": The Tennessee Valley Authority and Federal-Local Cooperation in the Sun Belt South, 1940-1960 - Matthew L. Downs
10. Lighting the "Dark and Evil World": Judge J. Smith Henley, Arkansas, and the Federal Judiciary's Reform of the Southern Prison - Gregory L. Richard
Part V. Tax Fury and the Tea Party
11. The Tea Party in the South: Populism Revisited? - Allan B. McBride
12. Deal or No Deal: Taxes, Government Spending, and Alabamians Having Their Cake and Eating It Too - Natalie Motise Davis
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Glenn Feldman
Part I. Past to Present
1. First to Secede, Last to Accede: South Carolina's Resistance to the Republic, 1780-Present - Thomas F. Schaller
Part II. Race, War, and Culture
2. Tom Watson and Resistance to Federal War Policies in Georgia during World War I - Zachary C. Smith
3. "Negroes, the New Deal, and . . . Karl Marx": Southern Antistatism in Depression and War - Jason Morgan Ward
4. Dixiecrats, Dissenting Delegates, and the Dying Democratic Party: Mississippi's Right Turn from Roosevelt to Johnson - Rebecca Miller Davis
5. Right Turn? The Republican Party and African American Politics in Post-1965 Mississippi - Chris Danielson
Part III. A Nation within a Nation?
6. Texas Philosophy, Nashville Agrarianism, Reagan Republicanism, and the Neo-Confederacy: The Influence of M. E. Bradford - Fred Arthur Bailey
7. The Evil Empire Within: Southern Nationalism and the Washington Problem - David R. Jansson
Part IV. Economic Development and Reform
8. Getting Farmers-and Tourists-"Out of the Mud": Alabama's Nineteenth-Century Experience with Public Projects and Its Response to the Federal Road Aid Acts of 1916 and 1921 - Martin T. Olliff
9. "From Nothin' to Somethin'": The Tennessee Valley Authority and Federal-Local Cooperation in the Sun Belt South, 1940-1960 - Matthew L. Downs
10. Lighting the "Dark and Evil World": Judge J. Smith Henley, Arkansas, and the Federal Judiciary's Reform of the Southern Prison - Gregory L. Richard
Part V. Tax Fury and the Tea Party
11. The Tea Party in the South: Populism Revisited? - Allan B. McBride
12. Deal or No Deal: Taxes, Government Spending, and Alabamians Having Their Cake and Eating It Too - Natalie Motise Davis
List of Contributors
Index