Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860

Christopher Morris

ISBN 10: 0195134214 / ISBN 13: 9780195134216

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195134214
• ISBN 13: 9780195134216
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for--perhaps more so than any other state. Tracing its long histories of economic, social, and cultural evolution, Morris takes a close and richly detailed look at a representative Southern community: Jefferson Davis's Warren County, in the state's southwestern corner. Drawing on many wills, deeds, court records, and manuscript materials, he reveals the transformation of a loosely knit, typically Western community of pioneer homesteaders into a distinctly Southern society based on plantation agriculture, slavery, and a patriarchal social order.

"This thoughtful, well-written study doubtless will be widely read and deservedly influential."--American Historical Review.

About the Author

Christopher Morris is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.