Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Boles, John B.

Description

xii, 524 pages; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to American history ; 3

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to American history ; 3.

Subject

• Southern States > Historiography
• Southern States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The First Southerners: Indians of the Early South / Amy Turner Bushnell -- 2. Spanish and French Exploration and Colonization / Paul E. Hoffman -- 3. The English Colonial South to 1750 / Cynthia A. Kierner -- 4. The Origins of Slavery, 1619-1808 / Betty Wood -- 5. Understanding the South in the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1789 / Ira D. Gruber -- 6. The South in the New Nation, 1790-1824 / Daniel S. Dupre -- 7. The Plantation Economy / Mark M. Smith -- 8. The Maturation of Slave Society and Culture / Stephanie J. Shaw -- 9. Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South / Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. -- 10. Religion in the Pre-Civil War South / Randy J. Sparks -- 11. Politics in the Antebellum South / Daniel W. Crofts -- 12. Women in the Old South / Sally G. McMillen -- 13. Intellectual and Cultural History of the Old South / David Moltke-Hansen -- 14. Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis / Mary A. DeCredico --
• 15. The Civil War: Military and Political Aspects along with Social, Religious, Gender, and Slave Perspectives / George C. Rable -- 16. Emancipation and Its Consequences / Laura F. Edwards -- 17. Political Reconstruction, 1865-1877 / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- 18. Economic Consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction / Joseph P. Reidy -- 19. Southern Politics in the Age of Populism and Progressivism: A Historiographical Essay / Samuel L. Webb -- 20. The Rise of Jim Crow, 1880-1920 / James Beeby and Donald G. Nieman -- 21. Women in the Post-Civil War South / Elizabeth Hayes Turner -- 22. The Discovery of Appalachia: Regional Revisionism as Scholarly Renaissance / John C. Inscoe -- 23. Religion in the American South Since the Civil War / Paul Harvey -- 24. Southern Environmental History / Mart A. Stewart -- 25. Labor Relations in the Industrializing South / Daniel Letwin -- 26. The Impact of the New Deal and World War II on the South / Pamela Tyler --
• 27. The Civil Rights Movement / Charles W. Eagles -- 28. The Rise of the Sunbelt: Urbanization and Industrialization / David R. Goldfield -- 29. The Transformation of Southern Politics, 1954 to the Present / Wayne Flynt.

ISBN

0631213198 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2001018473

OCLC

• ocm45757831
• SCSB-4194814

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries