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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822125503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2002
• ISBN: 1-4051-6572-3; 1-282-12406-4; 1-78034-157-1; 9786612124068; 0-470-99630-7; 1-4051-3830-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Blackwell companions to American history ; ; 3
• Altri autori (Persone): BolesJohn B
• Disciplina: 975
• Soggetti: Southern States History; Southern States Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.