Author: Frederick F. SiegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865
The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness
Author: Frederick F. SiegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865
The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness
Author: Frederick F. SiegelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608060149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Place Over Time
Author: Carl N. DeglerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780820319421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Nearly twenty years after its original publication, Place Over Time remains an influential work in an ongoing debate at the heart of southern historiography--what is the South and how is it different from other parts of the country? Carl N. Degler takes issue with historians C. Vann Woodward, Eugene Genovese, and others who view the Old South as a fading memory overtaken by a bold New South, with the Civil War and its aftermath as the sharp dividing point between the two eras. He also challenges the conventional wisdom that the South is fundamentally different from the rest of the country. Instead, Degler makes an eloquent and thought-provoking argument for a narrowly limited but persistent southern cultural identity that shares common values with the rest of the country while retaining its own distinctiveness and continuity with the past.
The Burden of Southern History
Author: Comer Vann Woodward (historien).)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Southern Distinctiveness
Author: Paul CirauloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Away Down South
Author: James C. CobbPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198025017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms. After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as their African American counterparts in the "Harlem Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned, the South confronted a new identity crisis brought on by global homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New South become the No South? Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.
Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South
Author: Todd L. SavittPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book looks at disease entities (yellow fever, hookworm, pellagra) especially associated with the American South and wrestles with the relation of diseases to an issue of perennial concern to southern historians, that of southern distinctiveness.
The Resilience of Southern Identity
Author: Christopher A. CooperPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded--chain restaurants have replaced mom-and-pop diners, and the interstate highway system connects the region to the rest of the country. Given all of these changes, many have argued that southern identity is fading. But here, Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts show how these changes have allowed for new types of southern identity to emerge. For some, identification with the South has become more about a connection to the region's folkways or to place than about policy or ideology. For others, the contemporary South is all of those things at once--a place where many modern-day southerners navigate the region's confusing and omnipresent history. Regardless of how individuals see the South, this study argues that the region's drastic political, racial, and cultural changes have not lessened the importance of southern identity but have played a key role in keeping regional identification relevant in the twenty-first century.
The South Through Time
Author: John B. BolesPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780131835498
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a gracefully written narrative of southern history, from Reconstruction to the present. The South Through Time is the most up-to-date, analytical, and stylishly written history of the region available on the market. Comprehensive, interpretive, and inclusive, with much attention given to politics, society, economics, culture, religion, women, and blacks, it offers a discussion of regional variation within the South and broadens its coverage beyond the traditional emphasis on the Atlantic seaboard states. Its comprehensive coverage of the history of the Southern U.S. makes this an appropriate reference work for writers and researchers.
The Southern Judicial Tradition
Author: Timothy S. HuebnerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820342289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
He exposes the myth of southern leniency in appellate homicide decisions and also shows how the southern judiciary contributed to and reflected larger trends in American legal development."--BOOK JACKET.