ISBN: 0820311782 9780820311784

Category: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Page count: 279

An astute and stimulating account of the people and forces that shaped the development of Georgia and, by implication, other areas of the South, <i>The Creation of Modern Georgia</i> is a provocative reinterpretation of the transition from the Old South to the New. Rejecting previous analyses, Bartley describes the persistence and ultimate collapse of a plantation-oriented colonial society and the emergence of a modern Georgia. In the second edition, Bartley has enlarged and updated the book with two new chapters to place greater emphasis on the expanded urbanization, industrialization, and diversification of Georgia.