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THE NEW SOUTH IBD

TALL MEN BOOKS
08 / 2025
9781088142257
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In 1912,áTheodoreáRooseveltáaddressed theáAmericanáHistoricaláAssociation toácalláforáAmericanáhistoryáto beáwrittenáas compellingástoriesáofáliteraryáquality.áEditoráAllenáJohnson of YaleáUniversityárespondedábyápublishingátheáChronicles of America series:á50 succinctávolumesáonáregional andáthematic Americanáhistory.áTheseábooks,áintendedáfor secondaryáschoolsáandácollegeástudents,áare expositoryáworksáofáAmerican history composedábyácompetent historiansáinátheá1920âÇÖs,áwellábeforeáthe specialápleadingáand upendingáofásocialánormsátypicaláofáhistoriesáafterá1970. This seriesáisáfocused onátheámainstreamáof American politicalálifeáandáleadershipáfromáits initialávolumesáonáNativeáAmericans andáEuropeanácolonistsátoáitsáfinalávolumes onáWoodrowáWilson,áCanada,áandátheáHispanicáRepublicsátoáouráSouth.Holland ThompsonâÇÖs history of the New South tells the story of the return to home rule after the end of Reconstruction and the rise of the Bourbon Democrats and industrial progressives in Dixie. The SouthâÇÖs slow adaptation from agriculture to industry was accompanied by the development, at the turn of the century, of Jim Crow segregation laws and the new mill towns that brought textiles and other industries into the South. The book includes an editorâÇÖs bibliography that takes into account the agrarian movement that opposed the industrial development in the early 20th century and the more recent scholarly literature on the period.

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