Books written by J. Mills Thornton
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Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800--1860
the one book-length account of the coming of the war which I have found truly satisfying is that of my student Michael A. Morrison in his Slavery and the American West (1997). Based on an examination of the papers of political leaders ...
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Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800--1860
Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society governed by a planter elite.
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Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860
Supported with maps, charts, and voting records, this book meticulously details the structure and nature of local politics as the key to understanding national politics of the time.
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Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965
The captivating essays in Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965 address this overarching and underlying narrative of Alabama politics and the history of the South.
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Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
Dividing Lines shows that the action campaigns in three southern cities that mobilized black resistance to segregation and disfranchisement grew directly from specific events of municipal politics in those cities."--BOOK JACKET.
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Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830-1965
Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830-1965