American South : A History

Name: American South : A History
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ISBN: 9780070644380

ISBN-10: 0070644381

ISBN-13: 9780070644380

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: William J. Cooper, Thomas E. Terrill

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List price: $38.75
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

William J. Cooper, Jr. is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University. In addition to numerous articles, essays, & reviews, he is the author of "The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890," "The South & the Politics of Slavery, 1825-1856," & "Liberty & Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860," as well as co-author of "The American South: A History." He lives in Baton Rouge.

Preface
Prologue: The Enduring South
Map Essay/The Geography of the South	p. 1
The Beginnings	p. 7
The Economic and Social World	p. 31
The Intellectual, Political, and Religious World	p. 54
The Revolution	p. 72
The South in the New Nation	p. 97
Republican Ascendancy	p. 122
A New Political Structure	p. 148
Plantations and Farms	p. 173
The Institution of Slavery	p. 192
The World of the Slaves	p. 209
Learning, Letters, and Religion	p. 230
The Free Social Order	p. 254
Political Parties and the Territorial Issue	p. 280
The Crisis of the Union	p. 300
Map Essay/The Geography of the Civil War	p. 329
The Confederate Experience	p. 338
After the War	p. 365
Economic Reconstruction, 1865-1880	p. 401
The Redeemers and the New South, 1865-1890	p. 425
A Different South Emerges: Rails, Mills, and Towns	p. 452
Shaking the Foundations: The 1890s	p. 486
Divisions in Dixie	p. 521
Southern Progressives	p. 546
Restoration and Exile, 1912-1929	p. 578
Religion and Culture in the New South	p. 608
Map Essay/The Changing South: People and Cotton	p. 635
The Emergence of the Modern South, 1930-1945	p. 639
The End of Jim Crow: The Civil Rights Revolution	p. 677
The Modern South	p. 714
No Eden in Dixie	p. 746
Biographies	p. 760
Bibliographical Essay	p. 769
Index	p. 815
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