The American South: A History Vol. I

By: Cooper, William JMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York: McGraw Hill, 1991Description: Vol.1; xx,410 pages. illustrationISBN: 9780070637412; 0070637415DDC classification: 980
Contents:
The beginnings -- The economic and social world -- The intellectual, political, and religious world -- The revolution -- The South in the new nation -- Republican ascendancy -- A new political structure -- Plantations and farms -- The institution of slavery -- The world of the slaves -- Learning, letters and religion -- The free social order -- Political parties and the territorial issue -- The crisis of the union -- The confederate experience -- After the war -- Economic reconstruction: 1865-1880 -- The redeemers and the New South, 1865-1890 -- A different South emerges: rails, mills, and towns -- Shaking the foundations: the 1890s -- Divisions in Dixie -- Southern progressives -- Restoration and exile: 1912-1929 -- Religion and culture in the New South -- The emergence of the modern South, 1930-1945 -- The end of Jim Crow: The civil rights revolution -- The modern South -- No Eden in Dixie.
Summary: The American South" takes a fresh look at major political, economic, social, and cultural developments from the founding of Jamestown in 1607, to modern times. Volume I begins with settlement of the English colonies and takes students through the end of the Civil War. Volume II moves from 1865 to the 1990s. The book offers: coverage of slavery - its origins, how it functioned as an institution, the world of slaves in the colonial era and the 19th century; and coverage of women - providing a sense of their lives and roles inside and outside of the family from the colonial era onwards.
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The beginnings --
The economic and social world --
The intellectual, political, and religious world --
The revolution --
The South in the new nation --
Republican ascendancy --
A new political structure --
Plantations and farms --
The institution of slavery --
The world of the slaves --
Learning, letters and religion --
The free social order --
Political parties and the territorial issue --
The crisis of the union --
The confederate experience --
After the war --
Economic reconstruction: 1865-1880 --
The redeemers and the New South, 1865-1890 --
A different South emerges: rails, mills, and towns --
Shaking the foundations: the 1890s --
Divisions in Dixie --
Southern progressives --
Restoration and exile: 1912-1929 --
Religion and culture in the New South --
The emergence of the modern South, 1930-1945 --
The end of Jim Crow: The civil rights revolution --
The modern South --
No Eden in Dixie.

The American South" takes a fresh look at major political, economic, social, and cultural developments from the founding of Jamestown in 1607, to modern times. Volume I begins with settlement of the English colonies and takes students through the end of the Civil War. Volume II moves from 1865 to the 1990s. The book offers: coverage of slavery - its origins, how it functioned as an institution, the world of slaves in the colonial era and the 19th century; and coverage of women - providing a sense of their lives and roles inside and outside of the family from the colonial era onwards.

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