A New History of the American South

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For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present. This groundbreaking work draws on both well-established and new currents in scholarship, among them global and Atlantic world history, histories of African diaspora, and environmental history. The volume also considers the experiences of all people of the South: Black, white, Indigenous, female, male, poor, and elite. Together, the essays compose a seamless, cogent, and engaging work that can be read cover to cover or sampled at leisure. Contributors are Peter A. Coclanis, Gregory P. Downs, Laura F. Edwards, Robbie Ethridge, Kari Frederickson, Paul Harvey, Kenneth R. Janken, Martha S. Jones, Blair L. M. Kelley, Kate Masur, Michael A. McDonnell, Scott Reynolds Nelson, James D. Rice, Natalie J. Ring, and Jon F. Sensbach. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents INTRODUCTION PART I: PRECONTACT TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ONE: The American South to 1600: The Ancient Native South TWO: Contact, Conflict, and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century South THREE: Indians, Africans, and Europeans in the Early South FOUR: The Revolutionary Era PART II: THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY FIVE: The South and the New Nation, 1783–1820 SIX: The Age of Emancipation SEVEN: The South and the Nation, 1840–1860 EIGHT: The Southern Nations, 1860–1880 NINE: The Bourbon South PART III: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY TEN: Bearing the Burden of Separate but Equal in the Jim Crow South ELEVEN: The Nature of Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South TWELVE: The South and the State in the Twentieth Century THIRTEEN: Southern Religion and Southern Culture in the Twentieth Century FOURTEEN: The Southern Economy in the Long Twentieth Century FIFTEEN: The Post–World War II Black Freedom Struggle Acknowledgments Recommended Reading Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z