The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds

The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds
ISBN-10
1557287104
ISBN-13
9781557287106
Category
History
Pages
407
Language
English
Published
2001-07-01
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Author
Dewey W. Grantham

Description

The South in Modern America is a lively and illuminating account of the Southern experience since the end of Reconstruction. In the twentieth century, as in the nineteenth, the South has been the region most sharply at odds with the rest of the nation. No other part of the country has as clear-cut a sectional image. The interplay between the South, the North, and the rest of the nation represents a rich and instructive part of the United States history, illustrating much of the nation's conflict and tension, the way it has tried to reconcile divergent issues, and its struggles to realize its historical ideals. In this new treatment of modern Southern history, Dewey W. Grantham illuminates the features that make the South a distinctive region while clarifying how it has converged socially and politically with the rest of the country during this century.

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