Format:
Online-Ressource (538 S.)
ISBN:
9781405121309
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History Ser 3
Content:
A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States. Contains 29 original essays by leading experts in American Southern history. Covers the entire sweep of Southern history, including slavery, politics, the Civil War, race relations, religion, and women's history. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.
Content:
A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States. Contains 29 original essays by leading experts in American Southern history. Covers the entire sweep of Southern history, including slavery, politics, the Civil War, race relations, religion, and women's history. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN SOUTH; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I The Colonial South; 1 The First Southerners: Indians of the Early South; 2 Spanish and French Exploration and Colonization; 3 The English Colonial South to 1750; 4 The Origins of Slavery, 1619-1808; 5 Understanding the South in the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1789; Part II The Antebellum South; 6 The South in the New Nation, 1790-1824; 7 The Plantation Economy; 8 The Maturation of Slave Society and Culture; 9 Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South; 10 Religion in the Pre-Civil War South
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11 Politics in the Antebellum South12 Women in the Old South; 13 Intellectual and Cultural History of the Old South; Part III Civil War and Reconstruction; 14 Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis; 15 The Civil War: Military and Political Aspects along with Social, Religious, Gender, and Slave Perspectives; 16 Emancipation and Its Consequences; 17 Political Reconstruction, 1865-1877; 18 Economic Consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction; Part IV The New South; 19 Southern Politics in the Age of Populism and Progressivism: A Historiographical Essay; 20 The Rise of Jim Crow, 1880-1920
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21 Women in the Post-Civil War South22 The Discovery of Appalachia: Regional Revisionism as Scholarly Renaissance; 23 Religion in the American South Since the Civil War; Part V The Modern South; 24 Southern Environmental History; 25 Labor Relations in the Industrializing South; 26 The Impact of the New Deal and World War II on the South; 27 The Civil Rights Movement; 28 The Rise of the Sunbelt: Urbanization and Industrialization; 29 The Transformation of Southern Politics, 1954 to the Present; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405138307
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405121309
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Companion to the American South
Language:
English
Keywords:
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