George Washington'S South

George Washington's South brings together a diverse array of essays by scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and anthropology, focusing on Washington, the development of… Lue lisää George Washington's South brings together a diverse array of essays by scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and anthropology, focusing on Washington, the development of regional identity in the South, and interactions among many of the region's people. The contributors examine the relationship between George Washington's varied and contradictory careers as a southern planter, general, and president and the emergence of the American South during the 18th century. They explore how regional identity is formed and how the life of Washington reflects the diversity of race, gender, and frontier experiences that confronted the American South during the years of the Early Republic. ContentsIntroductionPart 1. On the Map and Off: The South as a Diverse Region1. Remapping Boundaries in the Old Southwest, 1783? 1795, by Daniel H. Usner, Jr. 2. Mapping the "American South": Image, Archive, and the Textual Construction of Regional Identity in the Age of Washington, by Martin Bruckner3. "And Die by Inches": George Washington and the Encounter of Cultures on the Southern Colonial Frontier, by Warren R. Hofstra4. "This gown . . . was much admired and caused much jealousy": Fashion and the Forging of Elite Identities in French Colonial Louisiana, by Sophie WhitePart 2. George Washington as Person, Symbol, and Southerner 5. George Washington and Three Women, by Don Higginbotham6. George Washington: Publicity, Probity, and Power, by David S. Shields7. George Washington, the South, and the Poetics of National Memory, by Carla MulfordPart 3. Free and Enslaved Black Americans in George Washington's South8. Slave Flight: Mount Vernon, Virginia, and the Wider Atlantic World, by Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls9. "Under the Color of Law": The Ordeal of Thomas Jeremiah, a Free Black Man, and the Struggle for Power in Revolutionary South Carolina, by William R. RyanPart 4. George Washington and Southern Indians 10. George Washington, Dragging Canoe, and Southeastern Indian Resistance, by Peter H. Wood11. Creek Indians and Americans in the Age of Washington, by Robbie Ethridge12. George Washington and the "Civilization" of the Southern Indians, by Theda Perdue