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The South in Modern America

A Region at Odds

Dewey W Grantham, Jr author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Arkansas Press

Published:31st Jul '01

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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.

ISBN: 9781557287106

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 608g

359 pages