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The Old South

Smith, Mark M. (Editor)

Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History

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1. Edition October 2000
320 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-21926-2
John Wiley & Sons

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The Old South is a collection of primary documents and previously published essays introducing students to recent themes found in scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South. The documents are drawn directly from the essays not only to vividly illustrate the events, but also to show students how historians construct arguments based on archival evidence. Smith introduces the collection with a detailed essay, and provides study questions, suggestions for further reading, a map, and a chronology of significant events creating a highly useful student-friendly reader.

Acknowledgements.

Map: The Old South in 1860.

Chronology.

Introduction.

Part I: A Modern Old South.

Part II: Southern Honor, Southern Violence.

Part III: Constructing And Defending Slavery.

Part IV: Communities, Cultures, and Economies: Lives of the
Enslaved.

Part V: Selling Southern Bodies.

Part VI: Womanhood in Black and White.

Index.
This is an exceptionally well-conceived and well-executed
collection of documents and scholarly essays. Mark Smith deserves
high marks for at once presenting and recasting the antebellum
South in bold and original ways. The Old South is absolutely
first-rate." Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill

"This book provides an excellent introduction to the study of
the antebellum South, covering the salient topics in the region's
economic, political, and cultural history. Mark Smith's essay on
the historiography is elegant and informative, and his choice of
readings is judicious. Undergraduates will learn a great deal from
this volume, and it is perfectly suited for course adoption."
Joan E. Cashin, author of Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women
in the Old South
Mark M. Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He previously taught at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. He is the author of Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (1997) and Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South (1998).

M. M. Smith, University of South Carolina