The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Van Minnen, Cornelis A.

The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813143088)

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The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Van Minnen, Cornelis A.

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

$40.00
The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Van Minnen, Cornelis A.

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

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 community, the South has recently evoked

Author: Cornelis A. Van Minnen
ISBN-10: 081314308X
ISBN-13: 9780813143088
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2013
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.43h x 6.36w x 1.10d

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Choice 04/01/2014
By Cornelis A. Van Minnen
By Cornelis A. Van Minnen
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Cornelis A. van Minnen is director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands, and professor of American history at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant and coeditor of Political Repression in U.S. History.

Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American history of the Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is the author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America and "The Ticket to Freedom" The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.

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