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The History of a Deep South State
University of Alabama Press
March 1994
On Sale: March 3, 1994
707 pages
ISBN: 0817355987
EAN: 9780817355982
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Non-Fiction History
Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed
and occupied by European nations, later to become a
permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave
state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama
declared its independence and joined another nation, the
Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year
history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in
the 19th century’s last 35 years. Its role in the 20th
century has been tumultuous but painfully predictable. This
comprehensive history, written in the last decade of that
century, presents, explains, and interprets the major events
that occurred during Alabama’s history within the larger
context of the South and the
nation. Alabama: The History
of a Deep South State is the first completely new
comprehensive account of the state since A.B. Moore’s 1935
work. Divided into three main sections, the first concluding
in 1865, the second in 1920, and the third bringing the
story to the present, the book’s organization is both
chronological and
topical. General readers will
welcome this modern history of Alabama, which examines such
traditional subjects as politics, military events,
economics, and broad social movements. Of equal value are
sections devoted to race, Indians, women, and the
environment, as well as detailed coverage of health,
education, organized labor, civil rights, and the many
cultural elements—from literature to sport—that have
enriched Alabama’s history. The roles of individual leaders,
from politicians to creative artists, are discussed. There
is as well strong emphasis on the common people, those
Alabamians who have been rightly described as the “bone and
sinew” of the state. Each section
of the book was written by a scholar who has devoted much of
his or her professional life to the study of that period of
Alabama’s past, and although the three sections reflect
individual style and interpretation, the authors have
collaborated closely on overall themes and organization. The
result is an objective look at the colorful, often
controversial, state’s past. The work relies both on primary
sources and such important secondary sources as monographs,
articles, and unpublished theses and dissertations to
provide fresh insights, new approaches, and new interpretations.
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