The American South : a very short introduction

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Title
"The American South : a very short introduction"
Statement of Responsibility
Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher
  • Oxford University Press
Publication Year
  • c2021
Book size
18 cm
Series Name / No
  • : pbk

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Summary: "The American South has a dramatic history that has made it a distinctive place on the world stage, one with continuing significance into the twenty-first century. Its early history illuminates the expansion of Europe into the New World, creating a colonial, plantation, slave society that made it different from other parts of the United States but fostered commonalities with other southern places that had similar colonial experiences. The Civil War and civil rights movement are historical events that transformed the South in differing ways and remain part of a vibrant public memory, one that the region's people and outsiders to the region often contest. In the twentieth century, the South's pronounced traditionalism in customs and values was in tension with the forces of modernization that only slowly forced change"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130) and index

Further reading: p. 131-137

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