In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that

In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the region to exp

In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region c

Meticulously analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War and the causes of that conflict.

Historians have published countless studies of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the era of Reconstruction that followed those four years of brutally