ISBN10: 0807100196, ISBN13: 9780807100196, [publisher: October 1995. Louisiana State Univ. Press] Softcover green & tan trade paperback soft cover 8vo. remainder copy in fine cond. looks new. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. front bottom corner tiny bit curly. red ink mark on bottom edge, other edges clean. contents free of markings. "October 1996 printing"(original edition 1951). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , or underlining. xiii+654p. critical essay on authorities. critical essay on recent works. bibliographic footnotes throughout. index. american history. reconstruction. populism. ~ Part of the difficulty lies in the phrase "New South." It is not a place name, as is "New England," nor does it precisely designate a period, as does "the Confederacy." From the beginning it had the color of a slogan, a rallying cry. It vaguely set apart those whose faith lay in the future from those whose heart was with the past. It suggested moods ranging from forthright recantation to an affable and uncritical optimism. It was invariably ladened with a hopeful nationalism suggesting that the lately disaffected South was at last one in faith with the country~or would be as soon as a few more bonds were sold, another appropriation was passed, the depression was ended, or the new railroad was completed. Those who have undertaken to write of the New South ...
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