James C Cobb

South and America Since World War II

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive history of the American South since World War II, offering a brisk, but comprehensive and authoritative narrative of politics, race, economics, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780195166507
• ISBN-10: 0195166507
• Artikelnr.: 30883167

Autorenporträt

James C. Cobb is B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. His books include The Most Southern Place on Earth, which won the Mississippi Historical Society's McLemore Prize, and Away Down South, which received the Mary Lawton Hodges Prize in Southern Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - The Post-War Assault on Jim Crow
CHAPTER 2 - Massive Resistance and the Civil Rights Awakening
CHAPTER 3 - From Farm to Factory and Town to City
CHAPTER 4 - How the Civil Rights Movement "Overcame "
CHAPTER 5 - The Politics of "Backlash, " North and South
CHAPTER 6 - The South Rejoins the Union, and Vice-Versa
CHAPTER 7 - Poverty, Power, and the Rise of the "Southern Rim "
CHAPTER 8 - The Price of "Progress " in the Sunbelt South
CHAPTER 9 - Women, Work, Politics, and the Problem of Change
CHAPTER 10 - Whites, Blacks, and Southern Identity after Jim Crow
CHAPTER 11 - Division and Diversity in the Contemporary South
CHAPTER 12 - Why the South is Still America's "Other "
NOTES