Books by James C. (B. Phinizy Spaulding Professor of History of the American South Cobb

In this unique synthesis of political, cultural, and intellectual history by a historian at the peak of his powers, James C. Cobb spans more then two centuries in tracing the origins and development of the South as not just an exception to the national rule, but an internal 'other' against which, from the very outset, American nationhood itself was defined.