Introduction : magnet South
Nationalization/The Plantation South
The problem of the plantation
Putting the colonial past in its place
Domestic possession and the imperial impulse
The enemy within
Industrialization and expansion/The slave South
Underwriting free labor and free soil
American universal geography
Dark satanic fields
The masterwork of national literature
The question of empire/The Reconstruction South
Abandoned lands and exceptional empire
The glory of disaster
Internal islands and the American scene, 1898-1905.
Our South : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature by Jennifer Rae Greeson. ISBN 9780674024281. Published by Harvard University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.