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Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights
Clive Webb
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Description for Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights
Hardback. A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTS; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 724.
The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights revolution of the twentieth century. While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and ... Read more
The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights revolution of the twentieth century. While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748613762
SKU
V9780748613762
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About Clive Webb
David Brown is a Lecturer in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester and author of Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South (2006). Clive Webb is a Reader in North American History at the University of Sussex.
Reviews for Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights
Clive Webb and David Brown have written an admirably extensive and useful survey of the racial experience of the American South since colonial times. Judicious, up-to-date, and alert to the wider context, it will win many friends for its welcome synthesis of a daunting historiography
Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University A stunning achievement. Clive Webb ... Read more
Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University A stunning achievement. Clive Webb ... Read more