Description |
xii, 524 pages ; 26 cm. |
Series |
Blackwell companions to American history ; 3
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Blackwell companions to American history ; 3.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The first Southerners : Indians of the early south -- Spanish and French exploration and colonization -- The English colonial south to 1750 -- The origins of slavery, 1619-1808 -- Understanding the south in the Revolutionary era, 1750-1789 -- The south in the new nation, 1790-1824 -- The plantation economy -- The maturation of slave society and culture -- Plain folk yeomanry in the antebellum south -- Religion in the pre-Civil War south -- Politics in the antebellum south -- Women in the old south -- Intellectual and cultural history of the old south -- Sectionalism and the secession crisis -- The Civil War : military and political aspects along with social, religious, gender, and slave perspectives -- Emancipation and its consequences -- Political reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Economic consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction -- Southern politics in the age of populism and progressivism : a historiographical essay -- The rise of Jim Crow, 1880-1920 -- Women in the post-Civil War south -- The discovery of Appalachia : regional revisionism as scholarly renaissance -- Religion in the American south since the Civil War -- Southern environmental history -- Labor relations in the industrializing south -- The impact of the New Deal and World War II on the south -- The civil rights movement -- The rise of the sunbelt : urbanization and industrialization -- The transformation of southern politics, 1954 to the present. |
Subject |
Southern States -- Historiography.
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Southern States. |
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Historiography. |
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Southern States -- History.
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History. |
Indexed Term |
Estados del Sur Historiografía. |
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Estados del Sur Historia. |
Added Author |
Boles, John B.
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ISBN |
0631213198 acid-free paper |
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