A Companion to the American South [Paperback]

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.

Preface.

Part I: the Colonial South.

1. The First Southerners: Indians of the Early South (Amy turner Bushnell).

2. Spanish and French Exploration and Colonization (Paul E. Hoffman).

3. The English Colonial South to 1750 (Cynthia A. Kierner).

4. The Origins of Slavery. 1619-1808 (Betty Wood).

5. Understanding the South in the Revolutionary Era, 1750--1789 (Ira D. Gruber).

Part II: The Antebellum South.

6. The South in the New Nation, 1790-1824. (Daniel S. Dupre).

7. The Plantation Economy (Mark M. Smith).

8. The Maturation of Slave Society and Culture (Stephanie J. Shaw).

9. Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South (Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.).

10. Religion in the Pre-Civil War South (Randy J. Sparks).

11. Politics in the Antebellum South (Daniel W, Crofts).

12. Women in the Old South (Sally G. McMillen).

13. Intellectual and Cultural History of the Old South (David Moltke-Hansen).

Part III: Civil War and Reconstruction.

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