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Nations Divided

America, Italy, and the Southern Question

By: Don Harrison Doyle

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Nations Divided

America, Italy, and the Southern Question

By: Don Harrison Doyle

In Nations Divided, Don H. Doyle looks at some unexpected parallels in American and Italian history. What we learn will reattune us to the complexities and ironies of nationalism. During his travels around southern Italy not long ago, Doyle was caught off guard by frequent images of the Confederate battle flag. The flag could also be seen, he was told, waving in the stands at soccer matches. At the same time, a political movement in northern Italy called for secession from the South. A historian with a special interest in the long troubled relationship between the American South and the United States, Doyle was driven to understand the forces that unite and divide nations from within. The Italian South had been at odds with the more prosperous, metropolitan North of Italy since the country's bloody unification struggles in the 1860s. Thousands of miles from Doyle's Tennessee home was an eerily familiar scenario: a South characterized in terms of its many perceived problems by a North eager to define national ideals against the southern "other." From this abruptly decentered perspective, Doyle reexamines both countries' struggle to create an independent, unified nation and the ongoing effort to instill national identity in their diverse populace. The Fourth of July and Statuto Day; Lincoln and Garibaldi; the Confederate States of America and the secessionist dreams of Italy's Northern League; NAFTA and the European Union--such topics appear in telling juxtaposition, both inviting and defying easy conclusions. At the same time, Doyle negotiates the conceptual slipperiness of nationalism by discussing it as both constructed and real, unifying and divisive, inspiration for good and excuse for atrocity. "Americans like to think of themselves as being innocent of the vicious ethnic warfare that has raged in the Old World and over so much of the globe," writes Doyle. "Europeans, in turn, enjoy reminding Americans of how little history they have." This enlightening, challenging meditation shows us that Europeans and Americans have much to learn from the common history of nationalism that has shaped both their worlds.

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152

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University of Georgia Press

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ISBN 10

0820326380

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9780820326382

Faulkner's County

The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha

By: Don Harrison Doyle

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Faulkner's County

The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha

By: Don Harrison Doyle

This history of Lafayette County, Mississippi, uses William Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past. From the arrival of Europeans in Chickasaw Indian territory in 1540 to Faulkner's death in 1962, Doyle chronicles more than four centuries of local history. 27 illustrations. 3 maps.

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492

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UNC Press Books

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0807849316

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9780807849316

New Men, New Cities, New South

Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910

By: Don Harrison Doyle

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New Men, New Cities, New South

Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910

By: Don Harrison Doyle

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 sl

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UNC Press Books

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0807842702

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9780807842706

The Social Order of a Frontier Community

Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70

By: Don Harrison Doyle

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The Social Order of a Frontier Community

Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70

By: Don Harrison Doyle

A well-conceived and well-argued book that is essential reading for those interested in the study of community building." --Journal of American History "This study is important for both frontier and urban historians. It is well written, thoroughly documented, and illustrated in an informative manner. One may hope that future studies of other nineteenth century American towns will be completed with the competence and style of this excellent volume." --The Old Northwest "For one who has lived in Jacksonville as I have, reading this book stirred fond memories and answered lingering questions about this town. . . . As a capsule study of an unusual Illinois community renowned for its past, Doyle's book makes for fascinating reading." --Civil War History

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324

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054911

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9780252054914

Baseball's Home Run Hitters

The Sultans of Swat

By: Don Nelson

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Baseball's Home Run Hitters

The Sultans of Swat

By: Don Nelson

Outstanding batters in the history of baseball are highlighted with accompanying statistics.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0880112204

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9780880112208

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