The history of the South in this century has been obscured in the ever-growing mass of information about the region's rapid change and turbulent development. In

In this thoughtful, sophisticated book, John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson piece together the intricate story of historian C. Vann Woodward’s 1951 masterpie

Reviews the economis, political, and social evolution of the Outh from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War I.