A companion to the American South / edited by John B. Boles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boles, John B.

Series:

Blackwell companions to American history ; 3.

Blackwell companions to American history ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--History.

Southern States.

Southern States--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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

11 Politics in the Antebellum South

12 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

21 Women in the Post-Civil War South

22 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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Originally published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612124068

9781405165723

1405165723

9781282124066

1282124064

9781780341576

1780341571

9780470996300

0470996307

9781405138307

1405138300

OCLC:

184983606