This book illuminates singular aspects of Southern society and culture and provides justification for thinking about the South as a region unto itself. It also shows that the South in fact consists of many shifting social and cultural sub-regions.
Andrew Frank is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is also author of The Birth of Black America: The Age ofDiscovery and the Slave Trade
Part 1 The Nascent South, Part 2 The Antebellum South Part 3 The Confedate South Part 4 The New South Part 5 The Modern South.