Description
The Routledge History of the American South looks at the major themes that have developed in the interdisciplinary field of Southern Studies. With fifteen original essays from experts in their respective fields, the handbook addresses such diverse topics as southern linguistics, music (secular and non-secular), gender, food, and history and memory. The chapters present focused historiographical analyses that, taken together, offer a clear sense of the evolution and contours of Southern Studies. This volume is valuable both as a dynamic introduction to Southern Studies and as an entry point into more recent research for those already familiar with the subfield.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Text and Context
Chapter 1: History of the American South
Chapter 2: Politics, Southern Style
Chapter 3: Southern Identity
Chapter 4: Southern Language
Chapter 5: Gendered Worlds
Chapter 6: War and Warriors
Chapter 7: Business and Work in the South
Chapter 8: Religious Practices
Chapter 9: Church Music in Black and White
Chapter 10: Songs of the South
Chapter 11: Foodways
Chapter 12: Architecture and Landscape Art
Chapter 13: The Cinematic South
Chapter 14: The Literary South
Chapter 15: Divided by a Common Past: Race and the Unfinished Revolution of Reconstruction
