Encyclopedia of the Antebellum South - Hardcover

Volo, James; Volo, Dorothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313308861 ISBN 13: 9780313308864

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2000

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Book by Volo James M Volo Dorothy Denneen

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"[T]he overall coverage of subjects, especially of slaves and slave life, is strong. The generally short length of the entries makes this volume most suitable as an introduction for high-school, public, and undergraduate libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ..."recommended for junior high and high school libraries as well as public and undergraduate college libraries..."-ARBA "Within the text is invaluable information....The authors have compiled an exhaustive amount of information regarding life in the southern states during the first half of the 19th century."-Smoke & Fire News " T he overall coverage of subjects, especially of slaves and slave life, is strong. The generally short length of the entries makes this volume most suitable as an introduction for high-school, public, and undergraduate libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ?...recommended for junior high and high school libraries as well as public and undergraduate college libraries...?-ARBA ?Within the text is invaluable information....The authors have compiled an exhaustive amount of information regarding life in the southern states during the first half of the 19th century.?-Smoke & Fire News ?[T]he overall coverage of subjects, especially of slaves and slave life, is strong. The generally short length of the entries makes this volume most suitable as an introduction for high-school, public, and undergraduate libraries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin .,."recommended for junior high and high school libraries as well as public and undergraduate college libraries..."-ARBA

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This comprehensive ready-reference encyclopedia of the history, people, events, places, movements, and issues of the Antebellum South is ideal for student use. Nearly 300 entries, selected for curriculum relevance with the assistance of historians and secondary school library media specialists, are organized alphabetically and thoroughly cross-referenced. The entries cover all aspects of political, economic, military, social, and cultural history of what was an exceedingly complex period fraught with contradictions. Slave life and conditions, plantation society, political and reform movements, revolts, industrialization, profiles with statistics of each Southern state, and biographical profiles of 90 key personalities of the period contribute to the comprehensive coverage of the encyclopedia. Each entry concludes with a bibliography of further reading suitable for students. A chronology of events and more than 45 illustrations from the period complement the text. The work is dedicated to the history of the South and the southern lifestyle as it was in the half-century before the Civil War and looks at certain events a decade or so outside of this period to provide continuity. The authors have carefully selected entries that reveal the southern perceptions of society, culture, and politics. The South's peculiar institution of slavery and the extension of slavery into the territories are examined not only as uniquely individual elements of antebellum southern society but as themes which permeated the attitudes, beliefs, and actions of the antebellum southerner. The many entries on slave life and conditions provide the reader with a great deal of pertinent information about the institution of slavery and the lives of those enslaved. Easy to use and comprehensive, this is an ideal reference work for schools and public libraries.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0313308861
• ISBN 13: 9780313308864
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 404