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Item Details
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A MYTHIC LAND APART
REASSESSING SOUTHERNERS AND THEIR HISTORY |
| By: |
Thomas H. Appleton, John David Smith |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£74.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
031329304X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780313293047 |
| Publisher: |
ABC-CLIO |
| Pub. date: |
12 May, 1997 |
| Series: |
Contributions in American History No. 173. |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
This work aims to untangle the mythology and history of South America, assessing the regions's folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform and temperance movement. Whether captured on film, fiction or historical literature, the South's history remains entwined with its mythical self. |
| Synopsis: |
Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the nine essays in this book provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's well-worn mythic images and the diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper. The chapters illustrate the South's complexity in assessing the region's plain folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement. The book untangles the South's mythology and offers fresh and penetrating insights into the ongoing reassessment of the region. Written by leading experts on the South's rich past, this book provides nine essays on the history of the South. Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the essays provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's well-worn images and the diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper.The South has always been a land of complexity and change. A Mythic Land Apart illustrates this in assessing the region's plain folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement. Whether captured in fiction, film, or historical literature, the South's history remains intertwined with its mythic self. The essays in this book untangle the South's mythololgy and offer fresh and penetrating insights into the ongoing reassessment of the region. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Greenwood Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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