Description: Incorporating the enormous amount of very sophisticated revisionist scholarship that has appeared over the past 25 years, this book provides a consistent, overall reinterpretation of southern history -- pre-1607 to the end of the Civil War -- offering a less fact-filled, more narrative and more interpretative approach that expands the concept of southern history both chronologically and geographically. Reflects the author's first-hand familiarity with the newest scholarship" -- as the editor of the "Journal of Southern History" and co-editor of a major study of southern historiography, "Interpreting Southern History. Explains "why" things happened the way they did rather than just telling "what" happened. Tells more about the entire South -- not just the eastern seaboard. Features better, more extensive coverage of Indians, blacks, and women than earlier histories of the South. Offers insights gained by what is now called a “ gendered analysis.” Introduces and explores new research on topics such as slavery and women's history. For anyone interested in the history of the South or Southern civilization.

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