The American South : a History Volume 2 From Reconstruction to the present

Cooper, William J., Jr. (William James), 1940- (Author). Terrill, Tom E., (author.). Childers, Christopher, (author.).

Summary: The authors demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442262317
ISBN: 1442262311
Physical Description: print
xxii, 571 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017-]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

After the war -- Economic Reconstruction, 1865-1880 -- The Redeemers and the New South, 1865-1890 -- A Different South Emerges: Rails, Mills, and Towns -- The South and the Crisis of the 1890s -- Jim Crow: Black and White South -- Southern Progressives -- Restoration and Exile, 1912-1929 -- Religion and Culture in the New South -- Map Essay : The Changing South: People and Cotton -- The Emergence of the Modern South, 1930-1945 -- The End of Jim Crow: The Civil Rights Revolution -- The Modern South -- The Sunbelt South: No Eden in Dixie.