Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930

(Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Don H. Doyle. DESC...)

Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Don H. Doyle. DESCRIPTION: A general history of the city with emphasis on the social history. After Reconstruction, Nashville spearheaded the South's transformation and became a battleground for forces of continuity and change. This work chronicles a half century of turbulent growth, from the buoyant celebration of the city's centennial to the onset of the Great Depression. In 1880 Nashville looked ahead to a future of wealth and promise. During the next few decades as railroads expanded, the city's economy prospered, Nashville grew more than three and a half time in size, and a new class of merchants, industrialists, and financiers emerged. The city became a center for higher education in the South. The depression of the 1890s slowed growth, and business leadership became more fragmented and conservative. Lacking a competitive railroad service and a strong industrial base, Nashville lagged behind Memphis, Birmingham, and Atlanta after the 1890s. After the turn of the century, however, a coherent central business district emerged, along with new skyscrapers and streetcars penetrating a suburban frontier. Although an era of progressive reform brought improvements in public education, health, and housing, a ring of squalid, disease-ridden slums surrounded its downtown. By the 1920s aggressive banks, brokerage houses, and insurance companies had created the "Wall Street of the South." Institutions of higher learning supplied cultural refinement that countered the materialism of city boosters. With the collapse of 1929, the aspirations of the New South were, for the moment, defeated. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Don H. Doyle is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of New Men, New Cities, New South: Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910, and other works on Southern history. PUBLISHING DETAILS: University of Tennessee Press, © 1985. Hardcover. 289 + xviii pages. 6.4" x 9.5".

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The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70 by Don Doyle (1990-10-01)

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The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70 by Don Doyle (1990-10-01)

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The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70

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Good condition. No remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean, show light wear (no tears). Illustrated. Writing/highlighting present throughout book. Does not interfere with reading. No tears inside book

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The South as an American Problem (Paperback) - Common

(How do southerners feel about the ways in which the rest ...)

How do southerners feel about the ways in which the rest of the country regards them In this volume, twelve observers of the modern South discuss its persistent image as a people and place at odds with mainstream American ideals and values. Ranging from the South's climate to its religious fundamentalism to its great outpouring of fiction and autobiography, the contributors show how and why our p...

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New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

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Cities were the core of a changing economy and culture that penetrated the rural hinterland and remade the South in the decades following the Civil War. In New Men, New Cities, New South, Don Doyle argues that if the plantation was the world the slaveholders made, the urban centers of the New South formed the world made by merchants, manufacturers, and financiers. The book's title evokes the exuberant rhetoric of New South boosterism, which continually extolled the "new men" who dominated the city-building process, but Doyle also explores the key role of women in defining the urban upper class. Doyle uses four cities as case studies to represent the diversity of the region and to illuminate the responses businessmen made to the challenges and opportunities of the postbellum South. Two interior railroad centers, Atlanta and Nashville, displayed the most vibrant commercial and industrial energy of the region, and both cities fostered a dynamic class of entrepreneurs. These business leaders' collective efforts to develop their cities and to establish formal associations that served their common interests forged them into a coherent and durable urban upper class by the late nineteenth century. The rising business class also helped establish a new pattern of race relations shaped by a commitment to economic progress through the development of the South's human resources, including the black labor force. But the "new men" of the cities then used legal segregation to control competition between the races. Charleston and Mobile, old seaports that had served the antebellum plantation economy with great success, stagnated when their status as trade centers declined after the war. Although individual entrepreneurs thrived in both cities, their efforts at community enterprise were unsuccessful, and in many instances they remained outside the social elite. As a result, conservative ways became more firmly entrenched, including a system of race relations based on the antebellum combination of paternalism and neglect rather than segregation. Talent, energy, and investment capital tended to drain away to more vital cities. In many respects, as Doyle shows, the business class of the New South failed in its quest for economic development and social reform. Nevertheless, its legacy of railroads, factories, urban growth, and changes in the character of race relations shaped the world most southerners live in today.

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By Don H. Doyle - New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910: 1st (first) Edition

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New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Don H. Doyle (1990-02-01)

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