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An edition of Books that changed the South (1977)

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Using twenty-five specific works published between 1624 and 1951, the author analyzes the impact of written history and sociology on the intellectual and social life of the South.

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University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
292

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Addresses, essays, lectures, Books, Civilization, Reviews, Southern states, civilization, Books, reviews, Estados del Sur, Civilización, Geistesgeschichte, Geschichte, Kultur, Literatur, Südstaaten, Livres, Recensions, Civilisation, Discours, essais, conférences

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1977, University of North Carolina Press
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Table of Contents

First American: Captain John Smith's The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
An American Pepys: William Byrd's History of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina
American statesman: Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Terrestrial paradise: William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
History versus legend: Mason Locke Weems's The life of Washington the great
Folk hero: A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee
Yarns of frontier life: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia scenes
Slave Plantation: Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a resident on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
From slavery to freedom: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave written by himself
Political philosopher: John Caldwell Calhoun's A disquisition on government
Hated helper: Hinton Rowan Helper's The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it
Southern traveler: Frederick Law Olmsted's The cotton kingdom
Southern panorama: Edward King's The great South
Romantic New Orleans: George W. Cable's Old Creole days
Black folktales: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings
Father of waters: Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi
Moonlight and magnolia: Thomas Nelson Page's In old Virginia
The great compromiser: Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from slavery
Black Protestant: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's The souls of black folk
Hymn of hate: Thomas Dixon's The clansman: an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Antebellum South: Ulrich Bonnell Phillip's Life and labor in the old South
Nostalgia for never-never land: Twelve Southerners' I'll take my stand
Regional inventory: Howard W. Odum's Southern regions of the United States
Nation within a nation: W.J. Cash's The mind of the South
Reconstruction to the new freedom: C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South, 1877-1913

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 283-285.
Includes index.

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Chapel Hill

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028.1
Library of Congress
Z1035.A1 D673 1977b, Z1035.A1D673 1977b

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Hardcover
Pagination
xvii, 292 p.
Number of pages
292
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

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OL4883657M
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0807812862
ISBN 13
9780807812860
LCCN
76013181
OCLC/WorldCat
2773564
Library Thing
1039421
Goodreads
3892049

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Downs uses great books to write the cultural history of society. His thesis is that the economic, social, and political behavior of a region, a nation, or even the world is shaped largely by the printed word. Concentrating on twenty-five publications from John Smith's General History of Virginia (1624) to C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South (1951), he analyzes the impact of written history and sociology on the intellectual and social life of the South. - Publisher.

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