South, the: Bibliography

See works by C. Eaton, H. W. Odum, and U. B. Phillips; W. H. Stephenson and E. M. Coulter, ed., A History of the South (10 vol., 1947–73); F. B. Simkins and C. P. Roland, A History of the South (4th ed. 1972); C. V. Woodward, Origins of the New South (1971) and The Strange Career of Jim Crow (3d rev. ed. 1974); D. R. Goldfield, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers (1982); B. Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982); E. and M. Black, Politics and Society in the South (1987); C. R. Wilson and W. Ferris, ed., The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989); D. R. Goldfield, The South for New Southerners (1991).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• The Contemporary South
• Reconstruction to World War II
• Seventeenth Century to the Civil War
• History
• Geography, Economy, and Other Features
• Bibliography

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