Books that changed the South
By: by Robert B. Downs.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780807812860
Subjects: Books -- Reviews; Southern States -- Civilization
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 283-285.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: First American: Captain John Smith's The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles; title: An American Pepys: William Byrd's History of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; title: American statesman: Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; title: Terrestrial paradise: William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida; title: History versus legend: Mason Locke Weems's The life of Washington the great; title: Folk hero: A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee; title: Yarns of frontier life: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia scenes; title: Slave Plantation: Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a resident on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839; title: From slavery to freedom: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave written by himself; title: Political philosopher: John Caldwell Calhoun's A disquisition on government; title: Hated helper: Hinton Rowan Helper's The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it; title: Southern traveler: Frederick Law Olmsted's The cotton kingdom; title: Southern panorama: Edward King's The great South; title: Romantic New Orleans: George W. Cable's Old Creole days; title: Black folktales: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings; title: Father of waters: Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi; title: Moonlight and magnolia: Thomas Nelson Page's In old Virginia; title: The great compromiser: Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from slavery; title: Black Protestant: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's The souls of black folk; title: Hymn of hate: Thomas Dixon's The clansman: an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan; title: Antebellum South: Ulrich Bonnell Phillip's Life and labor in the old South; title: Nostalgia for never-never land: Twelve Southerners' I'll take my stand; title: Regional inventory: Howard W. Odum's Southern regions of the United States; title: Nation within a nation: W.J. Cash's The mind of the South; title: Reconstruction to the new freedom: C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South, 1877-1913