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Lädt ... Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951)von C. Vann Woodward
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way: "The pyramid still stands. Origins of the New South has survived relatively untarnished through twenty years of productive scholarship, including the eras of consensus and of the new radicalism. . . . Woodward recognizes both the likelihood of failure and the necessity of struggle. It is this profound ambiguity which makes his work so interesting. Like the myth of Sisyphus, Origins of the New South still speaks to our condition." This enlarged edition contains a new preface by the author and a critical essay on recent works by Charles B. Dew. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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In Chapter VIII, "Mudsills and Bottom Rails," he discusses the relationship between black and white freedoms. Poor whites and freedmen were in pretty much the same economic position, 8 yet the transformation "from slavery to caste as a system of controlling labor" proceeded apace as the New South integrationist ideology attempted to pit workers against each other --divide and conquer (p. 209). The New South was not solid in ~he sense of labor quiescence in the face of management any more than it was politically unified. Addressing the activities of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor in the South, Woodward provides ample evidence of Southern labor's militancy.
In Chapter IX, "Southern Populism," he points out that the Southern Alliance men were oriented toward the West, as opposed to Southern Conservatives who had entered into a colonial relationship with Eastern capital. At the heart of Southern Populism was the Farmers' Alliance. As a test of Alliance loyalty the Southern Alliancemen chose fealty to the sub treasury system ( p,. 239) .This is an idea upon which Goodwyn would later build, more on this under Goodwyn entry. Analyzing the socio-economic structure of Southern Populism, Woodward finds its leadership to have been drawn from a variety of strata but its rank and file to have been predominantly of the lower orders (p. 246). There would be considerable agreement with Hofstadter I here. This agreement would extend to granting the Southern Populists' position among the national muckraker phenomenon. Indeed, the Southern Populists challenged the New South integrationist ideology head on (pp. 249, 252). Most radical of all was the attempt to integrate blacks into Populism, which itself engendered considerable violence against the movement (257-259). One more example of the fractioned New South!
Finally, in Chapter X, "Revolt Against the East," Woodward addresses the great depression of the nineties in the South. The South was torn by industrial conflict in exactly the same way as the North. The Populists of the South chose to ally themselves with those of the West under the free silver banner. Woodward spends considerable time analyzing Populist electioneering at the South. The detail is good but one could easily def lost. He concludes that revolting against the Democratic leadership, these new silver leaders eventually became as entrenched as the Eastern oriented leadership they had had replaced !(p. 290).