The American South A History

by Cooper, William J., Jr.; Terrill, Thomas E.

• ISBN13: 9780742560949
• ISBN10: 0742560945
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In The American South: A History, Fourth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr., and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the resulting tension has often propelled section and nation toward collision. In supporting their thesis, the authors draw on the tremendous amount of profoundly new scholarship in Southern history. Each volume includes a substantial biographical essay--completely updated for this edition--which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. Coverage now includes the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, up-to-date analysis of the persistent racial divisions in the region, and the South's unanticipated role in the 2008 presidential primaries.

Author Biography

William J. Cooper, Jr., is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University Thomas E. Terrill is emeritus professor of history at the University of South Carolina

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Prologue: The Enduring South	p. xv
List of Maps	p. xxv
Map Essay: The Geography of the South	p. 1
The Beginnings	p. 5
English Background
Others, European and Native
Jamestown
Growth and Conflict in Virginia
Maryland
The Carolinas
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana and the Lower Mississippi Valley
Unfree Labor, White and Red
Unfree Labor, Black
The Success of Slavery
The Economic and Social World	p. 31
The Breadth of Landowning
The Plantation System
Other Economic Activities
The Planters
The Farmers or Yeomen and Social Mobility
Women
The Breadth of Slave Owning
The Case of Georgia
The Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery
Slaves in a New World
Slave Families and Religion
The Work and Control of Slaves
The Intellectual, Political, and Religious World	p. 57
The Assemblies
Assertion of Power by the Assemblies
Regulation
The Elite and Deference
The Democratic Character of Politics
The Politicians
Participatory Politics
Conflict with Indians
Religion
The Great Awakening
Culture and Education
The Written Word
The Revolution	p. 77
Questions of Authority
Liberty Endangered
Views on Slavery
The Strength of Slavery
The Decision to Revolt
War Begins
The Southern War
The Advent of Nathanael Greene
Yorktown
The Impact of the War
Slavery and Liberty
The Form and Substance of Politics
A National Setting
The South in the New Nation	p. 105
Self-Interest
Unity and Disunity
Nationalism
Drafting the Constitution
The Ratification Contest
Opposition
Support
Under the Constitution
Hamilton's Vision
Southern Opposition
Federalists and the South
The Republican Party
The South as Republican
The Federalist Surge
The Republican Response
The Election of 1800
The March Westward
The West and Slavery
Republican Ascendancy	p. 135
The Louisiana Purchase
The Embargo
The Tertium Quids
The Federalists
The Coming of War
Party and Section and War
The Rise of Andrew Jackson
New Orleans and the End of the War
A Nationalist Course
Southerners and the New Nationalism
The Continued March Westward
The Dissenters
The Onset of the Missouri Crisis
The South's Reaction
The Missouri Compromise
The Panic of 1819
Political Repercussions
A New Political Structure	p. 163
Background to 1824
A New Politics
A New Alignment
Nullification
The Bank
Indian Policy
Jackson and Abolition
The Rise of the Whigs
The Political Arena
Another Panic
The Election of 1840
The Politics of Slavery
The Special Place of Calhoun
Partisanship and Economics
Economics and National Politics
Other Partisan Issues
Democrats and Whigs
Plantations and Farms	p. 191
Tobacco
Rice
Sugarcane
Cotton
Other Crops and Livestock
Economic Trends
Finance and a Market Economy
The Food Supply
The Formation of Plantation Districts
The Institution of Slavery	p. 213
Change and Continuity
The Distribution and Concentration of Slaves
Slave Codes
Patterns of Management
Overseers
Slave Drivers
Westward Movement and the Interstate Slave Trade
The Dimensions of the Slave Trade
The Profitability of Slaveholding
The World of the Slaves	p. 233
Work
Work Strategies
Industrial Slaves and Slave Hiring
Diet and Dress
Housing
Disease
Masters and Slave Families
Slaves and Their Families
Slaves as Christians
Rejection of Bondage
Rebellion
Learning, Letters, and Religion	p. 257
Intellectuals and the South
Thomas R. Dew and the Clergy
History and Society
A New Thrust
A Second New Direction
Science
History and Belles Lettres
William Gilmore Simms
The Humorists
Schooling
Colleges
The Growth of Evangelical Religion
The Message
Sectional Strife
The Free Social Order	p. 285
Planters
Yeomen and Poor Whites
Harmony or Disharmony
The Place of Women in Society
The Place of Women in Marriage
The Life of the Female Spirit and Mind
Women in the Economic and Political Systems
Free Blacks
Black Masters
Liberty and Honor
Slavery as a Subject of Discussion
Political Parties and the Territorial Issue	p. 315
The Power of Texas
Polk and the Mexican War
The Rise and Force of the Territorial Issue
The Partisan Response
Crisis and Compromise
The Illness and Death of the Whigs
The Know-Nothing Episode
The Crisis of the Union	p. 339
Southern Reaction to the Republican Party
The Trauma of Kansas
Economic and Industrial Growth
Industrial Leaders and Support for Industry
Commercial and Urban Development
Confidence and Anxiety
The Election of 1860
The Fire-Eaters
Secession of the Lower South
The Upper South and the Border States
The Formation of the Confederacy
Map Essay: The Geography of the Civil War	p. 373
The Confederate Experience	p. 383
Plans and Policy for War
The Naval War
The Eastern Theater, 1861-1862
The War in the West, 1861-1862
A Changing War
Hope Becomes Despair
The Impact of the War
The War and Slavery
The End
Biographies	p. 413
Bibliographical Essay	p. 419
Index	p. 461
About the Authors	p. 477
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