The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno

Notes on the Contributors PART I: THE TWO SOUTHS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Two Case-Studies in Comparative History: The American South and Italian Mezzogiorno ; E.D.Lago & R.Halpern The American South in Comparative Perspective; P.Kolchin Peter Kolchin's American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno : Some Questions about Comparative History; P.Bevilacqua PART II: LANDED ELITES AND RURAL WORKERS On the Edge of Modernity: Louisiana's Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century Sugar Country; R.Follett Land-Based Modernization and the Culture of Landed Elites in the Nineteenth-Century Mezzogiorno ; M.Petrusewicz The Politics of Black Rural Labourers in the Postbellum American South; S.Hahn 'Ill-Contrived, Badly Executed [and] of No Avail'?; Reform and its Impact in the Sicilian Latifondo (C.1770-1910); L.Riall PART III: GENDER AS A CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL COMPARISON Gender in the Recent Historiography of the US South and some Speculations on the Prospects for Comparative History; J.W.Harris Making Women 'Visible' in the History of the Mezzogiorno; G.Fiume PART IV: CONNECTIONS Radicalism and Nationalism: Northern 'Liberators' and Southern Labourers in the Untied States and in Italy; E.D.Lago Two Great Migrations: America and Italian Southerners in Comparative Perspective; D.Gabaccia Modernity, Backwardness and Capitalism in the two Souths; B.Levine