The American South: A History
- ISBN-10
- 0394589483
- ISBN-13
- 9780394589480
- Series
- The American South
- Category
- History / United States / State & Local / General
- Pages
- 835
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Authors
- William James Cooper, Tom E. Terrill
Description
Looks at the growth of the South from the English background of the 1607 settlement of Jamestown, to the political disintegration of the "solid South," to the economic transformation of the Sunbelt in the 1970s and 1980s
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