Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Charles S. Aiken is professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Reviews

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