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The American South: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. The American South: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of the South as a cultural crossroads, a meeting place between western Europe and West Africa. The South's beginnings illuminate the expansion of Europe into the New World, creating a colonial slave society that distinguished it from other parts of the United States but fostered commonalities with other colonial societies. The Civil War and civil rights movement transformed the South in differing ways and remain a part of a vibrant and contested public memory. More recently, the South's pronounced traditionalism in customs and values was in tension with the forces of modernization that slowly forced change in the twentieth century.

Southerners' creative responses to these experiences have made the American South well known around the world in literature, film, music, and cuisine. Charles Reagan Wilson argues for the significance of creativity in the South, emerging from the diversity of peoples, cultures, and experiences that the regional context fostered. The South has now become the new center of immigration, adding to the complexity of the region's cultural, social, economic, and political life. In this book, the burdens and tragedies of southern history are placed beside the creative achievements that have come out of the region, producing a portrait of a complex American place.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0199943516
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0199943517
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2021
  5. Part of series
    Very Short Introductions
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.8 x 0.4 x 4.4 inches
  8. Print length
    168 pages
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"Wilson's account, at 126 pages of text, encompasses a lifetime of knowledge in the subject." -- William A. Link , University of Florida , The Journal of Southern History

"This is a deftly woven history of the region, spanning from when indigenous southerners shaped the region to when Black activists orchestrated the removal of Confederate monuments from city centers. Charles Reagan Wilson has captured the driving foundational tensions of regionalism ― whiteness and otherness, urbanity and rurality, religiosity and secularism ― that have long animated our national consciousness. The South remains a mirror and creation of the nation, and Wilson's portrait of America's reflection over time is a precise invitation to look anew at who we have been, who we are, and who we might want to be in a more unified future." -- Zandria F. Robinson, author of This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South

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Charles Reagan Wilson is Professor Emeritus of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. The author of three historical studies and editor of a dozen more, Wilson has organized fifteen conferences and symposia. He served as the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture (1998-2007) and the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History (2007-2015), and worked extensively with graduate students in history and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the editor-in-chief of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (2013), the coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), and the coeditor of The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017). Frequently interviewed by such media outlets as CNN, the SEC Network, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and southern newspapers and magazines, he has been an essayist and reviewer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Raleigh News-Observer. Most recently, he served as an Obama Fellow at the Obama Institute of Transnational American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (January 1, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199943516
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199943517
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.8 x 0.4 x 4.4 inches
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Shane White
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An interesting book that explains the origins of the American South and what has made and continues to make this fascinating region unique.

Various topics are covered, including the general history of the South, the South’s music and cuisine, and the civil rights movement.

Chapter Two contains an excellent summary of the causes and effects of the Civil War on the South. (More detailed information on this topic can be found in the VSI volumes on American Slavery and the American Civil War).

An enjoyable book.
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