The Making of the American South A Short History, 1500-1877 [Paperback]

This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose.

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• Examines the major problems and issues of the Old South in clear, accessible prose.
  
• Covers the development of European outposts in the 16th Century, the Southern colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War and its aftermath.
  
• Explores the underlying topics and themes of the Southern way of life.

Acknowledgements.

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Map: The United States in 1860.

Prologue.

Part I: Before Southern History.

1. Before the South.

2. Colonials Become Americans.

3. Southern Power in the New Nation.

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Part II: Making the Old South.

4. An American Slave Society.

5. The Politics of Slavery and the Road to Secession.

6. Civil Wars.

7. The Reconstruction of the South and the Construction of Southern History.

Notes.

Bibliographical Note.

Index

“J. William Harris’s text offers an excellent and long overdue synthesis of recent scholarship on many different aspects of Southern history from the early seventeenth century through the era of Civil War and Reconstruction. Sensibly organized and beautifully written, it is a work that students will find readily accessible. It is a must for the classroom.” B.C. Wood, University of Cambridge

“This slim volume provides a crisp, up-to-date account of the South’s emergence as a distinctive, self-consl3/