The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Contents The U.S. South and Europe: An Introduction 1 Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg 1. Southerners Abroad: Europe and the Cultural Encounter, 1830–1895 15 William A. Link 2. Alexis de Tocqueville and Three German Travel Accounts on the Antebellum South and New Orleans 33 Thomas Clark 3. The German Forty-Eighters’ Critique of the U.S. South, 1850–1861 51 Daniel Nagel 4. “In the Days of Her Power and Glory”: Visions of Venice in Antebellum Charleston 73 Kathleen Hilliard 5. Elizabethan Dreams, Victorian Nightmares: Antebellum South Carolina’s Future through an English Looking Glass 87 Lawrence T. McDonnell 6. Slavery or Independence: The Confederate Dilemma in Europe 105 Don H. Doyle 7. The Lynching of Southern Europeans in the Southern United States: The Plight of Italian Immigrants in Dixie 125 Stefano Luconi 8. Southern Politicians, British Reformers, and Ida B. Wells’s 1893–1894 Transatlantic Antilynching Campaign 145 Sarah L. Silkey 9. Transatlantic Fundamentalism: Southern Preachers in London’s Pulpits during World War I 165 William R. Glass 10. Europeans Interpret the American South of the Civil War Era: How British and French Critics Received The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone With the Wind (1939) 181 Melvyn Stokes 11. Gunnar Myrdal and Arthur Raper in the Jim Crow South 205 Louis Mazzari 12. Explaining Jim Crow to German Prisoners of War: The Impact of the South on the World War II Reeducation Program 223 Matthias Reiss 13. Britain, the American South, and the Wide Civil Rights Movement 243 Clive Webb 14. Resisting the Wind of Change: The Citizens’ Councils and European Decolonization 265 Daniel Geary and Jennifer Sutton Acknowledgments 283 List of Contributors 285 Index 291 ...