Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Cotton Plantation Landscape, 1865 to 1970
Chapter 1. Overview of the Southern Plantation
Chapter 2. From Old South to New South Plantation
Chapter 3. The Demise of the Plantation
Chapter 4. Mechanization of the Plantation
Chapter 5. The World of Plantation Blacks
Part II: The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to
1998
Chapter 6. Mobilization
Chapter 7. Confrontation
Chapter 8. The War on Poverty
Chapter 9. School Desegregation
Part III: The Contton Plantation Regions in the Modern
South
Chapter 10. The RIght to Vote-An Illusive Black Power
Chapter 11. New Settlement Patterns
Chapter 12. Quest for a Nonagrarian Economy
Chapter 13. Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Charles S. Aiken is professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
A brief review can only hint at Aiken's exciting, original, and
insightful contributions. This splendid book deserves to be read,
discussed, and debated among all serious students of southern
history.
—Harold D. Woodman, Journal of Southern History
Any serious student of the geography of the United States will want
to have it in their library.
—Richard H. Jackson, Geographical Review
Charles Aiken has written a book in clear, readable prose that
should be read by anyone with an interest in or opinion about the
American South.
—Stephen S. Birdsall, Economic Geography
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