Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South
Will be published approx. on 31. May 2013
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-8130-4413-2 (ISBN)
Description
More than merely a legal status, citizenship is also a form of belonging, giving shape to a person's rights, duties, and identity, exerting a powerful historical influence in the making of the modern world.
The pioneering essays in this volume are the first to address the evolution and significance of citizenship in the South from the antebellum era, through the Civil War, and down into the late nineteenth century. They explore the politics and meanings of citizenry and citizens' rights in the nineteenth-century American South: from the full citizenship of some white males to the partial citizenship of women with no voting rights, from the precarious position of free blacks and enslaved African American anti-citizens, to postwar Confederate rebels who were not "loyal citizens" according to the federal government but forcibly asserted their citizenship as white supremacy was restored in the Jim Crow South.
The pioneering essays in this volume are the first to address the evolution and significance of citizenship in the South from the antebellum era, through the Civil War, and down into the late nineteenth century. They explore the politics and meanings of citizenry and citizens' rights in the nineteenth-century American South: from the full citizenship of some white males to the partial citizenship of women with no voting rights, from the precarious position of free blacks and enslaved African American anti-citizens, to postwar Confederate rebels who were not "loyal citizens" according to the federal government but forcibly asserted their citizenship as white supremacy was restored in the Jim Crow South.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Illustrations
3 tables, 3 figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-4413-2 (9780813044132)
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William A. Link | David Brown | Brian E. Ward
Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South
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1st Edition
University Press of Florida
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Martyn Bone | William A. Link | David Brown
Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South
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1st Edition
University Press of Florida
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Persons
William A. Link, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, USA, is the author of Links: My Family in American History.
David Brown, senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester, UK, is the author of Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights.
Brian Ward, professor of American Studies at Northumbria University, UK, is the author of Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South.
Martyn Bone, associate professor of English at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is the author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction.
David Brown, senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester, UK, is the author of Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights.
Brian Ward, professor of American Studies at Northumbria University, UK, is the author of Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South.
Martyn Bone, associate professor of English at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is the author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction.