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Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of "The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture," this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict, a bloody Civil War fought and lost on its soil, massive in- and out-migration, major economic transformations, and a civil rights movement that brought fundamental change to the social order.Wilson, Charles Reagan is the author of 'New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture History', published 2006 under ISBN 9780807830284 and ISBN 0807830283.
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