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A new history of the American South / edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; Laura F. Edwards and Jon F. Sensbach, associate editors.

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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

Southern States -- History.

9781469626659 (hardcover) :

1469626659 (hardcover)

xxvi, 584 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 25 cm

Introduction / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Part I: Procontact to the American Revolution. The American South to 1600: the ancient native South / Robbie Ethridge -- Contact, conflict, and captivity in the seventeenth-century South / James D. Rice -- Indians, Africans, and Europeans in the early South / Jon Sensbach -- The Revolutionary era / Michael A. McDonnell -- Part II: The long neneteenth century. The South and the new nation, 1783-1820 / Laura F. Edwards -- The age of emancipation / Martha S. Jones -- The South and the nation, 1840-1860 / Kate Masur -- The southern nations, 1860-1880 / Gregory P. Downs -- The Bourbon South / Scott Reynolds Nelson -- Party III: The twentieth century. Bearing the burden of separate but equal in the Jim Crow South / Blair L.M. Kelley -- The nature of reform in the early twentieth-century South / Natalie J. Ring -- The South and the state in the twentieth century / Kari Frederickson -- Southern religion and southern culture in the twentieth century / Paul Harvey -- The southern economy in the long twentieth century / Peter A. Coclanis -- The post-World War II Black freedom struggle / Kenneth R. Janken.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

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