Part One: The Two Souths in Comparative Perspective* 1. Two Case-Studies in Comparative History: The American South and the ItalianMezzogiorno-Enrico Dal LagoandRick Halpern* 2. The American South in Comparative Perspective- Peter Kolchin* 3. Peter Kolchin's American South and the ItalianMezzogiorno: Some Questions about Comparative History -Piero Bevilacqua*Part Two: Landed Elites and Rural Workers* 4. ON the Edge of Modernity: Louisiana's Landed Elites in the Nineteenth-Century Sugar Country - Richard Follett * 5. Land-Based Modernization and the Culture of Landed Elites in the Nineteenth-CenturyMezzogiorno-Marta Petrusewicz* 6. The Politics of Black Rural Laborers in the Postbellum American South -Steven Hahn* 7. 'Ill-Contrived, Badly Executed [and] .
Of No Avail'? Reform and its Impact in the SicilianLatifondo(c. 1770-1910) -Lucy Riall*Part Three: Gender as a Category of Historical Comparison* 8. Gender in the Recent Historiography of the U.S. South and Some Speculations on the Prospects for Comparative History -J. Willaim Harris* 9. Making Women 'Visible' in the History of theMezzogiorno-Giovanna Fiume*Part Four: Connections* 10. Radicalism and Nationalism: Northern 'Liberators" and Southern Laborers in the United States and in Italy -Enrico Dal Lago* 11.
Two Great Migrations: American and Italian Southerners in Comparative Perspective -Donna Gabaccia- Table 1: Italian Migration in the U.S. A.: 1870-1920 * 12. Modernity, Backwardness, and Capitalism in the Two Souths -Bruce Levine*Notes on Contributors Part One: The Two Souths in Comparative Perspective* 1. Two Case-Studies in Comparative History: The American South and the ItalianMezzogiorno-Enrico Dal LagoandRick Halpern* 2. The American South in Comparative Perspective- Peter Kolchin* 3. Peter Kolchin's American South and the ItalianMezzogiorno: Some Questions about Comparative History -Piero Bevilacqua*Part Two: Landed Elites and Rural Workers* 4.
ON the Edge of Modernity: Louisiana's Landed Elites in the Nineteenth-Century Sugar Country - Richard Follett * 5. Land-Based Modernization and the Culture of Landed Elites in the Nineteenth-CenturyMezzogiorno-Marta Petrusewicz* 6. The Politics of Black Rural Laborers in the Postbellum American South -Steven Hahn* 7. 'Ill-Contrived, Badly Executed [and] . Of No Avail'? Reform and its Impact in the SicilianLatifondo(c. 1770-1910) -Lucy Riall*Part Three: Gender as a Category of Historical Comparison* 8. Gender in the Recent Historiography of the U.S.
South and Some Speculations on the Prospects for Comparative History -J. Willaim Harris* 9. Making Women 'Visible' in the History of theMezzogiorno-Giovanna Fiume*Part Four: Connections* 10. Radicalism and Nationalism: Northern 'Liberators" and Southern Laborers in the United States and in Italy -Enrico Dal Lago* 11. Two Great Migrations: American and Italian Southerners in Comparative Perspective -Donna Gabaccia- Table 1: Italian Migration in the U.S. A.: 1870-1920 * 12.
Modernity, Backwardness, and Capitalism in the Two Souths -Bruce Levine*Notes on Contributors.