The Routledge History of the American South looks at the major themes that have developed in the interdisciplinary field of Southern Studies. The chapters present focused historiographical analyses that, taken together, offer a clear sense of the evolution and contours of Southern Studies.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction: The Text and Context of the History of the American South - David A. Davis and Maggi M. Morehouse
• History of the American South - Rebecca Brannon
• Politics, Southern Style - Peyton L. Jones and Raymond Arsenault
• Southern Identity - Orville Vernon Burton and Anderson R. Rouse
• Southern Language and Linguistics - Becky Childs and Christine Mallinson
• Gendered Worlds - Valinda W. Littlefield and Dorothy O. Pratt
• War and Warriors - Marcus S. Cox
• Business and Work in the South - Bruce W. Eelman
• Religious Practices - Anderson R. Rouse and Orville Vernon Burton
• Church Music in Black and White - Eric Crawford
• Songs of the South: Southern Music - Erich Nunn and William C. Palmer
• Southern Foodways - David A. Davis
• Architecture and Landscape Art - Christopher Fennell, Shawn Fields, and Rebecca Schumann
• The Cinematic South - Lisa Hinrichsen and Daniel Cross Turner
• Southern Literature - Taylor Hagood
• Divided by a Common Past: Race and the Unfinished Revolution of Reconstruction - J. Brent Morris
• Selected Bibliography