| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

J. William Harris. Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 454. $45.00.

"Deep South," J. William Harris notes, "is a term of almost mythic resonance" of "a place frozen in time, marked by violent extremes of action and belief, yet, in the hands of its writers and musicians, touched by profundity" (p. 1). To explore the complex reality of these images, Harris compares three regions of the Deep South—the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, the eastern Georgia Piedmont, and the Sea Islands and rice coast of Georgia—from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War II. 1

The book is divided chronologically into three equal time spans. Part one, which traces the three regions from 1876 to 1896, describes the rise of both segregation and Populism in the Deep South. Part two, covering 1897 to 1918, concentrates on World War I's threat to the area's financial and social structure. Part three examines the interwar adjustment to internal natural forces such as floods and the boll weevil as well as to such broad national developments as the rise of modern transportation, communication, entertainment, and, finally, the New Deal. . . .

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