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by Cornelis A. Van Minnen (Editor), Manfred Berg (Editor)
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 Biography
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.
