The American South: A Reader and Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748619976 ISBN 13: 9780748619979

Verlag: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2013

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An essential resource for the study of the American South

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Daniel Letwin is associate professor of history at Penn State University, where he specializes in labor, race relations, and the American South. He is author of The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921. His current research explores the nettlesome issue of "social equality" in African-American thought during the Jim Crow era.

Daniel Letwin is Associate Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University

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Praise for the hardback edition:'Written by leading international university scholars, this Reader offers a fascinating look at the myths and realities surrounding the evolution of the South's culture and people... Anyone with an interest in American or Southern history, African American history, the history of the civil rights era, or contemporary history of the New South will benefit from this book.'Library JournalWhat makes the American South distinct?Your one-stop introduction to the American South brings together key readings in southern history, from the region's colonial beginnings to the present. Essential works in the field - selected and introduced by a range of cutting-edge scholars with vast experience of teaching this subject – are presented alongside new introductory essays to the core areas of study, making The American South an indispensable textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in American Studies and History.Major themes in southern history are explored:o the South from colonial beginnings through the American Revolutiono the origins and evolving character of American slaveryo life in the antebellum Southo the roots, course and consequences of the American Civil Waro emancipation, Reconstruction and the coming of the New Southo the rise, nature and ultimate defeat of southern segregationo the inter-dynamics of race, class and gender in the cultural and material development of the regiono current trends of the American South within a global contextIncludes original essays introducing the core aspects of the history of the American South by John B. Boles, Lorri Glover, Adam Rothman, Stephanie J. Shaw, Victoria Bynum, Frank Towers, Anne Sarah Rubin, Kate Masur, Alex Lichtenstein, Stephen Tuck, Eric Arnesen, Paul Harvey, Kari Frederickson, Adam Fairclough and Clive Webb.Daniel Letwin is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Challenge of Interracial Unionism (1998) and co-author of On Strike for Respect (1995).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh Univ. Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748619976
• ISBN 13: 9780748619979
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Herausgeber: Letwin Daniel
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