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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Reimagining the Old South
Part I: The South in a World of Nations
1. Antebellum Southerners and the National Idea
2. A World Safe for Modernity: Antebellum Southern Proslavery Intellectuals Confront Great Britain
3. The Burdens and Opportunities of Interdependence: The Political Economies of the Planter Class
Part II: Slavery in a Modernizing Society
4. “A Disposition to Work”: Rural Enslaved Laborers on the Eve of the Civil War
5. Rethinking the Slave Trade: Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South
6. The Pregnant Economies of the Border South, 1840–1860: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Possibilities of Slave-Labor Expansion
Part III : Material Progress and Its Discontents
7. The Southern Path to Modern Cities: Urbanization in the Slave States
8. “Swerve Me?”: The South, Railroads, and the Rush to Modernity
9. Industry and Its Laborers, Free and Slave in Late-Antebellum Virginia
Part IV : The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture
10. Zion in Black and White: African-American Evangelicals and Missionary Work in the Old South
11. The Return of the Native: Innovative Traditions in the Southeast
12. Sex, Self, and the Performance of Patriarchal Manhood in the Old South
Part V : The Long View of the Old South
13. Counterpoint: What If Genovese Is Right?: The Premodern Outlook of Southern Planters
14. The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage
Afterword
Conclusion: The Future of the Old South
Index
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