The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force-not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a catalyst for the nation's only civil war, and later, as a battleground in violent civil rights conflicts. Once considered isolated and benighted by the international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081314308X
• ISBN13: 9780813143088
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"