The American South A History

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

• ISBN13: 9780742560970
• ISBN10: 074256097X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In The American South, 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. ix
Prologue: The Enduring South	p. xiii
List of Maps	p. xxi
Map Essay: The Geography of the Civil War	p. 373
The Confederate Experience	p. 381
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
After the War	p. 410
Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction
Soputhern Defiance: Unconquered Rebels?
The Republicans and Johnson's Reconstruction Policies
The 1866 Election and the Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction: Myth and Reality
The Emergence of the One-Party South
The Compromise of 1877
Economic Reconstruction, 1865-1880	p. 448
Landlords, Sharecroppers, and Tenants
Blacks and the Limits to Freedom
"Furnish," Crop Liens, and Country Merchants
Money and Interest
Puppet Monarch
Southern Railways
Bankruptcy, Consolidation, and Regulation
Cities, Towns, and Industry
The Redeemers and the New South, 1865-1890	p. 471
The New South Creed
The Lost Cause
A Woman of the New South
Political Independents Challenge the Redeemers
Republicans and Democrats in Virginia
The Solid South
Southern Democrats and Blacks
The Solid South and National Politics
The Blair Bill
The Legacy of the Redeemers
A Different South Emerges: Rails, Mills, and Towns	p. 499
Railroad Empires
Industry in the New South
Forest Products
Metals and Minerals
Processed Farm Products
Tobacco Manufacturing
Cotton Manufacturing
Urbanization in the New South
A Different South: At the Turn of the Century
The South and the Crisis of the 1890s	p. 532
The Depression of the 1890s
Prelude to the Alliance Movement
The Alliance Movement: Texas Roots
The Alliance in Politics
The Mississippi Plan
The Populists
Political Upheaval
The Populist Legacy
Disfranchisement: Jim Crow and Southern Politics
The Foundation Resecured
Jim Crow: Black and White South	p. 567
The Atlanta Compromise
Jim Crow
Why Jim Crow?
The Black World
Industrial Workers in the New South
Unions and Unionization in the New South
New Divisions among Protestants
Political Demagogues
Southern Progressives	p. 593
Four Southern Progressives
Progressivism, Southern Style
The Roots of Southern Progressivism
Educational Reform
Health Reforms
Child Labor Reform
Southern Ladies
Prohibition: The Noble Experiment
Restoration and Exile, 1912-1929	p. 626
The Wilson Administration
A Disrupted Society: The South during World War I
Good Times: The Southern Economy and World War I
Southern Appalachia
The Town World
Business Progressivism and State Government
The Ku Klux Klan Reborn
The Black World
The World of the Farm
The End of the Decade
Religion and Culture in the New South	p. 660
The Scopes Trial
The Religious Heritage of the Twentieth-Century South
Culture in the Postbellum South
The War Within
The Southern Literary Renaissance
Southern Regionalism in the 1920s and 1930s
Gone with the Wind Map Essay: The Changing South: People and Cotton
The Emergence of the Modern South, 1930-1945
The Depression and the South
In the Democratic Majority
The New Deal and Southern Agriculture
The New Deal and Southern Industry
Cracks in the Solid South
Jim Crow: An Uncertain Future
World War II
The End of Jim Crow: The Civil Rights Revolution	p. 730
Jim Crow and the Truman Administration
The Supreme Court and "Separate but Equal"
Brown: Massive Resistance, Calculated Evasion
Public School Desegregation: Little Rock and New Orleans
The Civil Rights Movement
The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights
Birmingham and the March on Washington
The Voting Rights Act
Disillusionment
The End of "Freedom of Choice"
The Modern South	p. 768
Wallace and National Politics
The Rise of the Southern Republicans
The Collapse of the Solid South
The Republican Party Secures Its Place in Dixie
The Transformation of the Southern Democrats
The Sunbelt
"Cotton Fields No More"
The Metropolitan South
The Sunbelt South: No Eden in Dixie	p. 803
The Vanishing South?
Two Religions: North and South?
Other Faiths: Southern Literature, Football, and Elvis
Persistent Divisions: Black and White
Biographies	p. 825
Bibliographical Essay	p. 833
Index	p. 877
About the Authors	p. 893
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