| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The American South in a Global World. Ed. by James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 299 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2924-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8078-5589-8.)

The cover photograph of The American South in a Global World depicts a tendril of kudzu half-encircling a globe turned to show the New World. A closer look shows the globe is en español, and the giant word NORTE (of the phrase AMERICA DEL NORTE) runs partly across Kentucky, dwarfing the smaller-fonted phrase ESTADOS UNIDOS. Similarly, the title itself appears inside a superimposed circle with The American South appearing above a quasi-equatorial line, in a appearing on the line, and Global World appearing below. The cover offers a striking metaphor for the broad ambitions of this volume: to rethink the South not as exceptional within the nation, but as inextricably linked to the rest of the world, especially as part of the global norte.

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