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Edward L. Ayers

The Promise of the New South

Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition

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At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century.Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling cont… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-988683-8
  • EAN: 9780199886838
  • Produktnummer: 13859401
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 7'428 KB
  • Auflage: Anniversary Edition
  • Abbildungen: 25 halftones, 25 line illustrations

Über den Autor


Edward L. Ayers is President and Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He was named National Professor of the Year in 2003 and is a Bancroft and the Beveridge Prize winner.

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