"In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to visit vacation homes in the mountains of western North Carolina. Those unable to afford the expense of a second home relaxed …
A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.
"In this pioneering study, Feldman shows how the transitional years after World War II, the Dixiecrat episode, and the early 1950s formed a pivotal sequence of events that altered America's political landscape in profound, fundamental, and unexpected ways. Feldman convincingly a…
In this pioneering study, Feldman shows how the transitional years after World War II, the Dixiecrat episode, and the early 1950s formed a pivotal sequence of events that altered America's political landscape in profound, fundamental, and unexpected ways. Feldman convincingly ar…
Audacious in its scope, subtle in its analysis, and persuasive in its arguments, The Great Melding is the second book in Glenn Feldman' s magisterial recounting of the South' s transformation from a Reconstruction-era citadel of Democratic Party inertia to a cauldron of GOP agit…
In sharp contrast to the "melting pot" reputation of the United States, the American South--with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement--has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John …
