New South

South Africa The Struggle for a New Order, by Marina Ottaway, Copyright, 1993, by The Brookings Institution. The book is dense with details on the governments agencies, the struggle, and the transition from apartheid during the first two years. The author, Marina Ottaway is the former Senior Research Associate and Head of the Middle East Program in the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her bio on the Wilson Center website states that she is a long time analyst of political transformation in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has an extensive professional history in teaching, research, and has published and edited multiple works. (POLITICO LLC) Chapter…

establishing colonies in New England and in the South. These two regions were very different from one-another and thus provided the colonists with very different challenges. Due to environmental factors such as soil quality and the need for cheap labor, the New England colonies and the Southern colonies were forced to find different economic solutions that would allow them to flourish and survive. The Southern colonies were fortunate to have settled on rich farm land with a warm climate that…

Next was Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement which is a collection of scholarly essays that reassesses Florida's response to the modern civil rights movement. The core argument within these essays is that Florida's answer to the modern civil rights movement was basically no different from that of any other former states of the Confederacy. Contrary to popular opinion, Florida was not more mild on the subject of race relations than its southern…

prevalent and must command the South. Blacks may have certain common and political rights, yet they can 't have power in extent to their numbers. Social equality is unsatisfactory is the thing that the South reacted with so as to hold blacks under their control. The New South was a district of critical changes in the South. The New South had a strong core, economic diversity and healthy growth over time. There were earth shattering changes in the new south on open administrations, for example,…

The New South course covered shift the American South and what made this shift so significant. The New South economically and sociologically changed after the Civil War. The aftermath caused the South to be poor and rural; they were still dependent on the agricultural economy. It soon followed the North’s example of industrialization significantly changed the South’s economy. In turn, this brought more populations as well as diversity to the South. This reflects in what is seen as the New South…

After the Civil War the Southern economy which relied on slavery was destroyed. New South boosters came in during the industrial era and worked to improve the South by building railroads and factories. Southerners also began shipping out raw materials such and timber and coal. Just as before the war a majority of the South was poor. In books such as Rick Bragg’s Ava’s Man and Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls by Victoria Byerly the lives of the working class poor in the New South were described in…

What was the idea of the New South and how successful was it? Cheyenne (Varner) Richardson The New South was a reconstruction to get the South back on its feet, economically speaking. Much of the area had been damaged in the war, down to whole cities being wiped out. There was also the problem of freeing African-Americans from slavery. After the Civil War ended, the United States had to reintegrate both a formerly slave population and a formerly rebellious population back…

Reconstruction is commonly known as the time of rebuilding the United States in a post Civil War America. When slavery was abolished and the Nation was divided President Andrew Johnson had to face the daunting task of bringing the South back into the Union, as well as redefining a culture that had drastically shifted in a few short years. The culture and economy of the Southern United States had been built around slavery, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted, freeing the slaves and…

Sheldon Hackney was a historian of the post-Civil War South. Hackney was the protégé of historian C. Vann Woodward who specialized in the American South and wrote Origins of the New South. Hackney was the first in twenty years to challenge Woodward’s ideas that he expressed in his article. Because Hackney worked closely with Woodward, Hackney was able to know Woodward’s thoughts, ideas, and research first hand and apply this information to his article “Origins of the New South in Retrospect.”…

I choose to explore William Faulkner’s tale, “A Rose for Emily”. The two principal themes I am writing about is the “Old South” vs. the “New South” and the portrait of human loneliness and desperation. Emily’s house is very much like herself. Her house is a symbol of the dying world of the old south, as the rest of the developing town represents the new south. The house’s architecture and style is from the 1870s and much has changed by the time the story took place. The town describes her house…