Southerners abroad: Europe and the cultural encounter, 1830-1895 / William A. Link -- Alexis de Tocqueville and three German travel accounts on the antebellum South and New Orleans / Thomas Clark -- The German forty-eighters' critique of the U.S. South, 1850-1861 / Daniel Nagel -- "In the days of her power and glory": visions of Venice in antebellum Charleston / Kathleen Hilliard -- Elizabethan dreams, Victorian nightmares: antebellum South Carolina's future through an English looking glass / Lawrence T. McDonnell -- Slavery or independence: the Confederate dilemma in Europe / Don H. Doyle -- The lynching of Southern Europeans in the Southern United States: the plight of Italian immigrants in Dixie / Stefano Luconi -- Southern politicians, British reformers, and Ida B. Wells's 1893-1894 transatlantic antilynching campaign / Sarah L. Silkey -- Transatlantic fundamentalism: southern preachers in London's pulpits during World War I / William R. Glass -- Europeans interpret the American South of the Civil War era: how British and French critics received The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) / Melvyn Stokes -- Gunnar Myrdal and Arthur Raper in the Jim Crow South / Louis Mazzari -- Explaining Jim Crow to German prisoners of war: the impact of the South on the World War II reeducation program / Matthias Reiss -- Britain, the American South, and the wide civil rights movement / Clive Webb -- Resisting the wind of change: the citizens' councils and European decolonization / Daniel Geary and Jennifer Sutton.