The Routledge History of the American South / edited by Maggi M. Morehouse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morehouse, Maggi M., 1953- editor.

Series:

Routledge histories.

Routledge Histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This handbook brings together an interdisciplinary set of contributors to explore the various strains that make up the study of the American South, including politics, demographics, culture, geography, and history.

Contents:

Introduction : the text and context of the history of the American South / David A. Davis and Maggi M. Morehouse

History of the American South / Rebecca Brannon

Politics, Southern Style / Peyton L. Jones and Raymond Arsenault

Southern Identity / Orville Vernon Burton and Anderson R. Rouse

Southern language and linguistics / Becky Childs and Christine Mallinson

Gendered worlds / Valinda W. Littlefield and Dorothy O. Pratt

War and warriors / Marcus S. Cox

Business and work in the South / Bruce W. Eelman

Religious practices / Anderson R. Rouse and Orville Vernon Burton

Church music in black and white / Eric Crawford

Songs of the South : Southern music / Erich Nunn and William C. Palmer

Southern foodways / David A. Davis

Architecture and landscape art / Christopher Fennell, Shawn Fields, and Rebecca Schumann

The cinematic South / Lisa Hinrichsen and Daniel Cross Turner

Southern literature / Taylor Hagood

Divided by a common past : race and the unfinished revolution of reconstruction / J. Brent Morris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-66535-X

1-78785-617-8

1-317-66534-1

OCLC:

993949545