TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper, William J;
TI  - The American South: A History Vol. I
SN  - 9780070637412
U1  - 980 
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw Hill
N1  - Included Index; 	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
N2  - 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
ER  -