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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Larry J Griffin; Don Harrison Doyle |
ISBN: | 0820317292 9780820317298 0820317527 9780820317526 |
OCLC Number: | 31519057 |
Description: | ix, 310 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Why was the South a problem to America? / Larry J. Griffin -- How American is the American South? / David L. Carlton -- Climate and southern pessimism : the natural history of an idea, 1500-1800 / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Slavery as an American problem / James Oakes -- Slavery, secession, and reconstruction as American problems? Don H. Doyle -- The south, the Supreme Court, and race relations, 1890-1965 / James W. Ely Jr. -- Since 1965 : the South and civil rights / Hugh Davis Graham -- The South as an economic problem : fact or fiction? / Robert A. Margo -- Blues for Atticus Finch : Scottsboro, Brown, and Harper Lee / Eric J. Sundquist -- Black southerners, shared experience, and place : a reflection / Jimmie Lewis Franklin -- Race and southern literature : "The problem" in the work of Louis D. Rubin Jr. / Michael Kreyling -- The end of the South as an American problem / John Egerton. |
Responsibility: | edited by Larry J. Griffin and Don H. Doyle. |
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"Stylish essays . . . Portray and interpret a region that changed more than any other in the postwar years."--"Atlanta Journal-Constitution" "Scholars have long searched for the central theme of southern history, and this volume is a major contribution to that quest."--Charles Reagan Wilson, coeditor of "The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture" "A superb volume that deserves a wide readership."--"Southern Cultures" "Can't we all just get along? If we ever do, will it be because the South has shown America the way? Twelve authors . . . explore that paradoxical possibility in "The South As an American Problem"."--"Nashville Life" A superb volume that deserves a wide readership.--Southern Cultures Can't we all just get along? If we ever do, will it be because the South has shown America the way? Twelve authors . . . explore that paradoxical possibility in The South As an American Problem.--Nashville Life Scholars have long searched for the central theme of southern history, and this volume is a major contribution to that quest.--Charles Reagan Wilson "coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture " Stylish essays . . . Portray and interpret a region that changed more than any other in the postwar years.--Atlanta Journal-Constitution A superb volume that deserves a wide readership.--"Southern Cultures" Can't we all just get along? If we ever do, will it be because the South has shown America the way? Twelve authors . . . explore that paradoxical possibility in "The South As an American Problem."--"Nashville Life" Scholars have long searched for the central theme of southern history, and this volume is a major contribution to that quest.--Charles Reagan Wilson "coeditor of "The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture" " Stylish essays . . . Portray and interpret a region that changed more than any other in the postwar years.--"Atlanta Journal-Constitution" Read more...


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- Southern States -- History.
- Southern States -- Civilization.
- Regionalism -- Southern States.
- Southern States -- Race relations.
- Civilization.
- Race relations.
- Regionalism.
- Southern States.
- Gesellschaft
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Regionalismus
- USA -- Südstaaten
- Régionalisme -- États-Unis (sud)
- États-Unis (sud) -- Histoire.