The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation

by Joel Williamson

Book Overview

This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and progressive, literary and political--it offers a new understanding of the forces that shaped the South of today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195033825
• ISBN13: 9780195033823
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

a standard at its time.

This was one of the best books written on the subject when it was published. It had data in it not found in other books. I highly recommend it to anyone's library.