Old South by David Williams 2014 Paperback 9780881464849

Good Condition. 230 Pages thru Mercer University Press. 6x9x.75 inches. Synopsis "Sheds new light on the people and events that shaped the South in ways that affect the region and the nation to this day. Each chapter is accompanied by documents that illuminate the South's people in intimate and telling ways. The story begins with a survey of the South's first peoples and the eventual intrusion by Europeans, resulting in a clash of cultures that transformed societies. Subsequent struggles for land and power, strategies to subdue and enslave, and efforts to resist and survive laid the foundations of what would become a distinct region called the South. During the American Revolution, that region passed out of the British Empire, birthed in a conflict that was as much a civil war as a war for independence, especially for Southerners. Over the following decades, Native Americans were relentlessly driven out as the South moved west, ..." 158-03-30-25-40