Nation Within a Nation

The American South and the Federal Government

• Author(s): Glenn Feldman,
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Pages: 366
• ISBN_10: 0813064481
  ISBN_13: 9780813064482
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / American Government / General ,

Description:... From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the South has exerted an outsized influence on American government and history while being distinctly anti-government. It continues to do so today with Tea Party politics. Southern states have profited immensely from federal projects, tax expenditures, and public spending, yet the region's relationship with the central government and the courts can, at the best of times, be described as contentious. Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography, who examine the causes--real and perceived--for the South's perpetual state of rebellion, which remains one of its most defining characteristics.Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography who examine the causes--real and perceived--of the South's perpetual state of rebellion, which remains one of its most defining characteristics.