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New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) Paperback – February 1, 1990

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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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  1. Print length
    391 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Univ of North Carolina Pr
  4. Publication date
    February 1, 1990
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0807842702
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0807842706
  8. Lexile measure
    1470L
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One of the best monographs to date on boosterism and the New South's urban business elites. [A] beautifully written book.

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A fine book filled with astute insights, shrewd judgments, and interesting vignettes. It is soundly researched, and the arguments are convincingly developed.

"Labor History"

This is a well-written, extensively researched book that will be a significant contribution to our understanding of the postwar South.

"David R. Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"A fine book filled with astute insights, shrewd judgments, and interesting vignettes. It is soundly researched, and the arguments are convincingly developed.

"Labor History""

"This is a well-written, extensively researched book that will be a significant contribution to our understanding of the postwar South.

"David R. Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte"

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Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, is author of Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Univ of North Carolina Pr; 1st edition (February 1, 1990)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 391 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807842702
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807842706
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1470L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
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    Don H. Doyle, is McCausland Professor of History emeritus at the University of South Carolina. He grew up near Berkley, California, graduated from the University of California, Davis, and earned his PhD in history at Northwestern University. He was a Fulbright professor in Rome, Genoa, and Rio de Janeiro and taught at Leeds University in England. He is retired from teaching and lives in Folly Beach, South Carolina.

    "My fascination with the past began one summer in California when my mother brought home a shoebox full of letters from my great-great grandfather, a drummer boy from Vermont who served in the Civil War and wrote home to his parents. Without quite realizing it, I became a historian that summer."

    His new book, The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World (Princeton, 2024) breaks out of the usual focus on American events to examine the Reconstruction era within a larger international context. This book is a sequel to his acclaimed The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War (Basic, 2015), which offered a bold new interpretation of what America's Civil War meant to the wider world.

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  • S. H. Wells
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tracing the transition years
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2003
    Doyle traces the transition years between Old South and New South in Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston and Mobile between 1860 and 1910. Wonderful compilation of both quantitative and qualitative sources; the sources from newspapers during the time act like time capsules into the period. The newspaper sources combined with some photographs and maps make Doyle's book a well-researched place for students of Southern history and culture to enjoy an insightful glimpse into particular loci in the south. Chapters include:
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Urbanization of Dixie
    The New Order of Things
    Ebb Tide
    Patrician and Parvenu
    The Atlanta Spirit
    The Charleston Style
    New Class
    Gentility and Mirth
    The New Paternalism
    Paternalism and Pessimism
    Epilogue
    Notes
    Index
    Students interested in the too-often forgetten urban south should get this book
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