The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930

Author/Contributor(s):	Ring, Natalie J
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	04/01/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

For most historians, the hostilities of the Civil War gave way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion. Ring contends this buoyant mythology competed with an equally powerful representation of the backward Problem South--one that resisted reformation by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts.