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Origins of the New South, 1877-1913: A History of the South
Paperback
Series: History of the South
ISBN13: 9780807100196
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Aug 1 1981
Pages: 672
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way:Also in
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