“This wide-ranging volume reminds us consistently that the U.S. South has always been an invention but one that exerts uncanny mobility across multiple borders and histories.”—Melanie Benson Taylor, a
An edited collection resulting from four international conferences held between 2008 and 2010 on the theme of citizenship in the nineteenth-century American South.
An examination of three different areas of the culture of the South in the United States: the Atlantic world, the nineteenth century, and consumer culture.
“This is a remarkable collection of essays. Citizenship clearly forms the backbone for these investigations but the range of the contributors’ backgrounds (in terms of disciplinary training) and the a
An examination of three different areas of the culture of the South in the United States: the Atlantic world, the nineteenth century, and consumer culture.
