A Companion to the American South

by Boles, John B.

• ISBN13: 9780631213192
• ISBN10: 0631213198
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States. Contains 29 original essays by leading experts in American Southern history. Covers the entire sweep of Southern history, including slavery, politics, the Civil War, race relations, religion, and women's history. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.

Author Biography

John B. Boles is William Pettus Hobby Professor of History at Rice University and Managing Editor of the Journal of Southern History. His recent books include The Irony of Southern Religion (1994) and The South Through Time: A History of an American Region (second edition, 1999).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Preface	x
Part I The Colonial South
The First Southerners: Indians of the Early South	3	(21)
Amy Turner Bushnell
Spanish and French Exploration and Colonization	24	(14)
Paul E. Hoffman
The English Colonial South to 1750	38	(16)
Cynthia A. Kierner
The Origins of Slavery, 1619--1808	54	(15)
Betty Wood
Understanding the South in the Revolutionary Era, 1750--1789	69	(16)
Ira D. Gruber
Part II The Antebellum South
The South in the New Nation, 1790--1824	85	(18)
Daniel S. Dupre
The Plantation Economy	103	(15)
Mark M. Smith
The Maturation of Slave Society and Culture	118	(21)
Stephanie J. Shaw
Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South	139	(17)
Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.
Religion in the Pre-Civil War South	156	(20)
Randy J. Sparks
Politics in the Antebellum South	176	(15)
Daniel W. Crofts
Women in the Old South	191	(21)
Sally G. McMillen
Intellectual and Cultural History of the Old South	212	(23)
David Moltake-Hansen
Part III Civil War And Reconstruction
Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis	235	(14)
Mary A. DeCredico
The Civil War: Military and Political Aspects along with Social, Religious, Gender, and Slave perspectives	249	(20)
George C. Rable
Emanipation and Its Consequences	269	(15)
Laura F. Edwards
Political Reconstruction, 1865--1877	284	(19)
Michael W. Fitzgerald
Economic Consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction	303	(18)
Joseph P. Reidy
Part IV The New South
Southern Politics in the Age of Populism and Progresivism: A Historiographical Essay	321	(15)
Samuel L. Webb
The Rise of Jim Crow, 1880--1920	336	(12)
James Beeby
Donald G. Nieman
Women in the Post-Civil War South	348	(21)
Elizabeth Hayes Turner
The Discovery of Appalachia: Regional Revisionism as Scholarly Renaissance	369	(18)
John C. Inscoe
Religion in the American South Since the Civil War	387	(22)
Paul Harvey
Part V The Modern South
Southern Environmental History	409	(15)
Mart A. Stewart
Labor Relations in the Industrializaing South	424	(20)
Daniel Letwin
The Impact of the New Deal and World War II on the South	444	(17)
Pamela Tyler
The Civil Rights Movement	461	(13)
Charles W. Eagles
The Rise of the Sunblet: Urbanization and Industrialization	474	(20)
David R. Goldfield
The Transformation of Southern Politics, 1954 to the Present	494	(12)
Wayne Flynt
Index	506