The American South A History
by Cooper, William J., Jr.; Terrill, Thomas E.Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-10-23
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
In The American South: A History, Fourth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr., and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the resulting tension has often propelled section and nation toward collision. In supporting their thesis, the authors draw on the tremendous amount of profoundly new scholarship in Southern history. Each volume includes a substantial biographical essay--completely updated for this edition--which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. Coverage now includes the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, up-to-date analysis of the persistent racial divisions in the region, and the South's unanticipated role in the 2008 presidential primaries.
Author Biography
William J. Cooper, Jr., is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University Thomas E. Terrill is emeritus professor of history at the University of South Carolina
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Prologue: The Enduring South | p. xv |
| List of Maps | p. xxv |
| Map Essay: The Geography of the South | p. 1 |
| The Beginnings | p. 5 |
| English Background | |
| Others, European and Native | |
| Jamestown | |
| Growth and Conflict in Virginia | |
| Maryland | |
| The Carolinas | |
| Georgia | |
| Florida | |
| Louisiana and the Lower Mississippi Valley | |
| Unfree Labor, White and Red | |
| Unfree Labor, Black | |
| The Success of Slavery | |
| The Economic and Social World | p. 31 |
| The Breadth of Landowning | |
| The Plantation System | |
| Other Economic Activities | |
| The Planters | |
| The Farmers or Yeomen and Social Mobility | |
| Women | |
| The Breadth of Slave Owning | |
| The Case of Georgia | |
| The Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery | |
| Slaves in a New World | |
| Slave Families and Religion | |
| The Work and Control of Slaves | |
| The Intellectual, Political, and Religious World | p. 57 |
| The Assemblies | |
| Assertion of Power by the Assemblies | |
| Regulation | |
| The Elite and Deference | |
| The Democratic Character of Politics | |
| The Politicians | |
| Participatory Politics | |
| Conflict with Indians | |
| Religion | |
| The Great Awakening | |
| Culture and Education | |
| The Written Word | |
| The Revolution | p. 77 |
| Questions of Authority | |
| Liberty Endangered | |
| Views on Slavery | |
| The Strength of Slavery | |
| The Decision to Revolt | |
| War Begins | |
| The Southern War | |
| The Advent of Nathanael Greene | |
| Yorktown | |
| The Impact of the War | |
| Slavery and Liberty | |
| The Form and Substance of Politics | |
| A National Setting | |
| The South in the New Nation | p. 105 |
| Self-Interest | |
| Unity and Disunity | |
| Nationalism | |
| Drafting the Constitution | |
| The Ratification Contest | |
| Opposition | |
| Support | |
| Under the Constitution | |
| Hamilton's Vision | |
| Southern Opposition | |
| Federalists and the South | |
| The Republican Party | |
| The South as Republican | |
| The Federalist Surge | |
| The Republican Response | |
| The Election of 1800 | |
| The March Westward | |
| The West and Slavery | |
| Republican Ascendancy | p. 135 |
| The Louisiana Purchase | |
| The Embargo | |
| The Tertium Quids | |
| The Federalists | |
| The Coming of War | |
| Party and Section and War | |
| The Rise of Andrew Jackson | |
| New Orleans and the End of the War | |
| A Nationalist Course | |
| Southerners and the New Nationalism | |
| The Continued March Westward | |
| The Dissenters | |
| The Onset of the Missouri Crisis | |
| The South's Reaction | |
| The Missouri Compromise | |
| The Panic of 1819 | |
| Political Repercussions | |
| A New Political Structure | p. 163 |
| Background to 1824 | |
| A New Politics | |
| A New Alignment | |
| Nullification | |
| The Bank | |
| Indian Policy | |
| Jackson and Abolition | |
| The Rise of the Whigs | |
| The Political Arena | |
| Another Panic | |
| The Election of 1840 | |
| The Politics of Slavery | |
| The Special Place of Calhoun | |
| Partisanship and Economics | |
| Economics and National Politics | |
| Other Partisan Issues | |
| Democrats and Whigs | |
| Plantations and Farms | p. 191 |
| Tobacco | |
| Rice | |
| Sugarcane | |
| Cotton | |
| Other Crops and Livestock | |
| Economic Trends | |
| Finance and a Market Economy | |
| The Food Supply | |
| The Formation of Plantation Districts | |
| The Institution of Slavery | p. 213 |
| Change and Continuity | |
| The Distribution and Concentration of Slaves | |
| Slave Codes | |
| Patterns of Management | |
| Overseers | |
| Slave Drivers | |
| Westward Movement and the Interstate Slave Trade | |
| The Dimensions of the Slave Trade | |
| The Profitability of Slaveholding | |
| The World of the Slaves | p. 233 |
| Work | |
| Work Strategies | |
| Industrial Slaves and Slave Hiring | |
| Diet and Dress | |
| Housing | |
| Disease | |
| Masters and Slave Families | |
| Slaves and Their Families | |
| Slaves as Christians | |
| Rejection of Bondage | |
| Rebellion | |
| Learning, Letters, and Religion | p. 257 |
| Intellectuals and the South | |
| Thomas R. Dew and the Clergy | |
| History and Society | |
| A New Thrust | |
| A Second New Direction | |
| Science | |
| History and Belles Lettres | |
| William Gilmore Simms | |
| The Humorists | |
| Schooling | |
| Colleges | |
| The Growth of Evangelical Religion | |
| The Message | |
| Sectional Strife | |
| The Free Social Order | p. 285 |
| Planters | |
| Yeomen and Poor Whites | |
| Harmony or Disharmony | |
| The Place of Women in Society | |
| The Place of Women in Marriage | |
| The Life of the Female Spirit and Mind | |
| Women in the Economic and Political Systems | |
| Free Blacks | |
| Black Masters | |
| Liberty and Honor | |
| Slavery as a Subject of Discussion | |
| Political Parties and the Territorial Issue | p. 315 |
| The Power of Texas | |
| Polk and the Mexican War | |
| The Rise and Force of the Territorial Issue | |
| The Partisan Response | |
| Crisis and Compromise | |
| The Illness and Death of the Whigs | |
| The Know-Nothing Episode | |
| The Crisis of the Union | p. 339 |
| Southern Reaction to the Republican Party | |
| The Trauma of Kansas | |
| Economic and Industrial Growth | |
| Industrial Leaders and Support for Industry | |
| Commercial and Urban Development | |
| Confidence and Anxiety | |
| The Election of 1860 | |
| The Fire-Eaters | |
| Secession of the Lower South | |
| The Upper South and the Border States | |
| The Formation of the Confederacy | |
| Map Essay: The Geography of the Civil War | p. 373 |
| The Confederate Experience | p. 383 |
| Plans and Policy for War | |
| The Naval War | |
| The Eastern Theater, 1861-1862 | |
| The War in the West, 1861-1862 | |
| A Changing War | |
| Hope Becomes Despair | |
| The Impact of the War | |
| The War and Slavery | |
| The End | |
| Biographies | p. 413 |
| Bibliographical Essay | p. 419 |
| Index | p. 461 |
| About the Authors | p. 477 |
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