The South: A Concise History, Volume I
The South: A Concise Historyprovides a narrative history of the nation's most distinctive region from 1492 to the present, with special attention to the Old South and to the social, economic, and political changes that helped create the New South. Designed to be accessible to college students and the average reader alike,The Southprovides a narrative framework' for analysis of the themes of southern and national history.Incorporating new scholarship on race, class, and gender,The Southillustrates—through narrative and example—how these issues affected ordinary people while contributing to the region's history.Additionally, the text devotes as much time to the post-Civil War South as to the Old South, particularly the South after World War II, thus providing context for contemporary regional culture and politics.Volume Icovers Southern history from 1492 to the Reconstruction era, investigating such topics as the role the South played in the new nation, the meaning of liberty in a slave society, southern politics from Washington to Jackson, and myths and misconceptions about the South.Volume IIexamines the South from the Reconstruction era to the present, including the New South economy, Jim Crow, Southern Progressivism, the impact of the World War II on the southern home front, the Civil Rights movement, and the Sunbelt economic boom.