The American South: A Reader and Guide

ISBN-13: 9780748619979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 416 str.

Daniel Letwin

Opis

This one-stop introduction to the American South brings together key readings in southern history, from the region's colonial beginnings to the present. Drawing together essential works in the field - selected and introduced by a range of cutting-edge scholars - The American South is the ideal textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in American Studies and History. Explores key themes in southern history: * the South from colonial beginnings through the American Revolution * the origins and evolving character of American slavery* life in the antebellum South o the roots, course and consequences of the American Civil War * emancipation, Reconstruction and the coming of the New South * the rise, nature and ultimate defeat of southern segregation * the inter-dynamics of race, class and gender in the cultural and material development of the region * current trends of the American South within a global context.

Spis treści

1. Thinking about the South, John B. Boles (William P. Hobby Professor of History, Rice University); 2. Origins of the Old South: The Colonial Era, Lorri Glover (Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee); 3. The South in the Ages of the Revolution and the New Republic, Adam Rothman (Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University); 4. Slavery in the Antebellum South, Stephanie J. Shaw (Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University); 5. Class and Culture in the White South, Victoria Bynum (Professor of History, Texas State University-San Marcos); 6. The Coming of Sectional Crisis, Frank Towers (Associate Professor of History, University of Calgary); 7. The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, Anne Rubin (Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland-Baltimore County); 8. Emancipation, Reconstruction, Redemption, Kate Masur (Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University); 9. Trials of the New South, Alex Lichtenstein (Associate Professor of History, Rice University); 10. Living Jim Crow, Stephen G. N. Tuck (University Lecturer in American History, Pembroke College, University of Oxford); 11. Worlds of Southern Labor, Eric Arnesen (Professor of History, University of Illinois-Chicago); 12. Minds of the South, Paul Harvey (Professor of History, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs); 13. The New South in Transition: New Deal, World War II, and Cold War, Kari Frederickson (Associate Professor of History, University of Alabama); 14. The Civil Rights Era, Adam Fairclough (Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of History and Culture of the United States, Leiden University); 15. The American South Today, Clive Webb (Reader in North American History, University of Sussex).