Books in the New Perspectives on the History of the South series

An exploration of the impact on imprisonment of individuals involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a whole.

Shepherd McKinley presents the first ever book on the role of phosphates in economic, social, and industrial changes in the South Carolina plantation economy. Using extensive research, McKinley shows how the convergence of the cotton and phosphate industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.

After criticism by activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its place in the civil rights movement. He challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a resourceful, dynamic, and politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to black participation.

Tells the story of a remarkable partnership to build model schools for black children during the Jim Crow era in the South. This story about the Rosenwald program - a tale of extraordinary generosity and sacrifice is useful for interest scholars of American and African-American history, educators, school planners, and preservationists.

By examining the development of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs - two early civil rights organisations that have been overlooked and marginalised by the historiography of the period - Lindsey Swindall reveals how the discourse on civil rights in the southern United States also employed an internationalist, anticolonial agenda during the mid-twentieth century.

What does it mean to be a man in the pre-Civil War South? And how can we answer the question from the perspective of the early twenty-first century? John Mayfield does so by revealing how early nineteenth-century Southern humorists addressed the anxieties felt by men seeking to chart a new path between the old honor culture and the new market culture. Lacking the constraints imposed by journalism or proper literature, these writers created fictional worlds where manhood and identity could be tested and explored.

A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, this book remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico and Central America in particular - before the Civil War.