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The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism de Glenn Feldman

The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism: The Modern South

Autor Glenn Feldman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2015

Observăm în ultimele decenii o reevaluare profundă a istoriografiei politice americane, trecând de la simplificări regionale la analize structurale complexe. The Great Melding reflectă această evoluție, oferind o perspectivă magisterială asupra modului în care Sudul Statelor Unite a abandonat inerția Partidului Democrat din epoca Reconstrucției pentru a deveni motorul agitației GOP. Notăm cu interes cum Glenn Feldman identifică anii de după cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial și începutul anilor '50 ca fiind secvența pivot care a reconfigurat fundamental peisajul politic american.

Lucrarea se distinge printr-o analiză subtilă a revoltei „Dixiecrat” din 1948, pe care autorul nu o tratează ca pe o simplă notă de subsol istorică, ci ca pe un veritabil model pentru conservatorismul modern. Stilul este provocator și viu, reușind să sintetizeze surse vaste pentru a demonstra cum Alabama a funcționat ca un laborator politic unde ideologiile contrastante s-au ciocnit într-un moment de fluiditate rară. Comparabil cu The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 de Kari Frederickson în rigurozitate, volumul de față aduce un plus de actualitate prin examinarea modului în care apelurile emotive la patriotism și religie au fost instrumentalizate pentru a demonta consensul New Deal.

În contextul operei sale, The Great Melding continuă efortul început în The Irony of the Solid South, unde autorul a demontat mitul unității democrate, și completează temele abordate în Painting Dixie Red sau The Disfranchisement Myth. Dacă lucrările anterioare se concentrau pe mecanismele de excludere și ascensiunea republicană, volumul de față detaliază procesul de „topire” (melding) a intereselor economice cu cele identitare, oferind o explicație coerentă pentru transformarea Sudului într-un bastion conservator.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780817318666
ISBN-10: 0817318666
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 2 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția University Alabama Press
Seria The Modern South

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru cercetătorii în științe politice și istorie care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile polarizării actuale din SUA. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care Alabama a prefigurat strategia politică națională. Este o recomandare solidă pentru cei care au apreciat Politics in the New South, oferind o analiză mai specifică asupra perioadei de tranziție 1942-1952.

Despre autor

Glenn Feldman este profesor de istorie la University of Alabama din Birmingham, fiind o autoritate recunoscută în studiul evoluției politice a Sudului American. Expertiza sa este reflectată într-o operă vastă care include titluri precum Painting Dixie Red, unde analizează tranziția regiunii către tabăra republicană, și Before Brown, axat pe drepturile civile și reacțiile conservatoare. Prin lucrări ca Alabama Governors și Nation within a Nation, Feldman a demonstrat o capacitate constantă de a lega istoria regională de dinamica politică națională, fiind premiat pentru rigoarea cercetării sale academice.

Descriere scurtă

2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Audacious in its scope, subtle in its analysis, and persuasive in its arguments, The Great Melding is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s magisterial recounting of the South’s transformation from a Reconstruction-era citadel of Democratic Party inertia to a cauldron of GOP agitation. In this pioneering study, Feldman shows how the transitional years after World War II, the Dixiecrat episode, and the early 1950s formed a pivotal sequence of events that altered America’s political landscape in profound, fundamental, and unexpected ways.
 
Feldman’s landmark work The Irony of the Solid South dismantled the myth of the New Deal consensus, proving it to be only a fleeting alliance of fissiparous factions; The Great Melding further examines how the South broke away from that consensus. Exploring issues of race and white supremacy, Feldman documents and explains the roles of economics, religion, and emotive appeals to patriotism in southern voting patterns. His probing and original analysis includes a discussion of the limits of southern liberalism and a fresh examination of the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948.
 
Feldman convincingly argues that the Dixiecrats—often dismissed as a transitory footnote in American politics—served as a template for the modern conservative movement. Now a predictable Republican stronghold, Alabama at the time was viewed by national political strategists as a battleground and bellwether. Masterfully synthesizing a vast range of sources, Feldman shows that Alabama was then one of the few states where voters made unpredictable choices between the competing ideologies of the Democrats, Republicans, and Dixiecrats.
 
Writing in his lively and provocative style, Feldman demonstrates that the events he recounts in Alabama between 1942 and Dwight Eisenhower’s 1952 election encapsulate a rare moment of fluidity in American politics, one in which the New Deal consensus shattered and the Democratic and Republican parties fought off a third-party revolt only to find themselves irrevocably altered by their success. The Great Melding will fascinate historians, political scientists, political strategists, and readers of political nonfiction.

Notă biografică

Glenn Feldman is a professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the author of The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944 and Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915–1949, and the editor of Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government.

Recenzii

" The Great Melding is, as one would expect from Feldman (who died tragically and unexpectedly in 2015), full of fascinating asides, stories, and arguments. The footnotes are a delight; one, spanning pages 316-319, could be published on its own as a brief (and characteristically provocative) essay on the southern roots of movement conservatism. The argument that economic liberalism was a spent force in Alabama by the mid-1940s will not convince everyone — why, if economic liberalism was dying by 1945, did Alabama continue to elect relatively economically liberal politicians like Carl Elliott for almost 20 more years? — but this book will prove valuable for anyone interested in mid-century southern politics."
—The Alabama Review

"A very acute and original interpretation of Alabama politics in the New Deal and immediate postwar period. Essential."
—CHOICE

"In his final contribution to the canon of southern political history, the late Glenn Feldman offers a deeply sourced and compelling argument for historians of white southern defiance, American conservatism, and the Republican ascendance. Feldman's work challenges scholars of southern politics to delve into the contours of white supremacy and its allies to reconsider the order in which they understand trends of white flight, anti-labor organizing, states' rights, and religious fundamentalism."
—The Journal of Southern History

“Feldman makes a powerful argument that race—first crudely and then subtly—has been an essential element in the development of southern conservative political developments from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the era of segregation and into the more recent past. Some critics may resist Feldman’s argument that racism has always been interwoven into economic ideas, but they will find it difficult to refute the persuasive evidence he has amassed and marshaled here.”
—Dan T. Carter, author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics, and From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994

“Feldman’s work is an impressive dissection of the southern break from the national Democratic Party, superbly delineating in exhaustive detail the origins of the 1948 Dixiecrat Movement as a precursor to the Republican Party’s dominance in the South. He clearly documents the hegemonic role of white supremacy in southern cultural, economic, and political identity and convincingly argues for the inextricable association between racism and economic advantage. The Great Melding makes a valuable contribution to southern political history as well as to the history of party alignment, American politics, and of course the role of race and politics.”
—Robert Bruno, author of Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown and Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches

Descriere

The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.