Southern character
Subtitle: essays in honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown
By: [edited by] Lisa Tendrich Frank, Daniel Kilbride
Series: Southern dissent
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780813036908
Subjects: Race relations; HISTORY / Social History; Civilization; Group identity; Social conditions; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); Women; History
Description: "Essays examining the character of the Southern gentleman, representing the works of historian Bert Wyatt-Brown and stressing the plural--not monolithic--nature of the South"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Accidental Yankee : Bertram Wyatt-Brown and southern history / Charles Joyner; title: What then makes an Indian? : the problem of identity in the early American Southeast / Andrew K. Frank; title: The strange career of Gideon Gibson : an early American tragedy / Christopher Morris; title: The politics of honor and masculinity : political culture in the Deep South, 1820s-1861 / Christopher J. Olsen; title: 'We are Virginians for the time being'  : antebellum Quakers and regional identity in the Upper South / A. Glenn Crothers; title: 'Ohio villains' and 'pretenders to new revelations' : Wesleyan abolitionists in the South, perfectionism, and the antebellum religious divide / Randall J. Stephens; title: The South and the revolutions of 1848 / Daniel Kilbride; title: Abraham Lincoln and southern honor / Daniel W. Stowell; title: 'Between death and dishonor' : defending Confederate womanhood during Sherman's March / Lisa Tendrich Frank; title: 'Neither matron nor maid' : race, gender, class, and marriage in Jim Crow Texas / Stephanie Cole; title: Voodoo in black and white / Jeffrey E. Anderson; title: Donald Davidson and the segregationist intellect / Benjamin Houston; title: The cross Florida Barge Canal and the politics of environmentalism / Chris Beckmann, Steven Noll, and David Tegeder; title: Southern conservatism and its discontents : Mel Bradford and the American right / John J. Langdale III; title: 'Freedom is a wonderful thing, but . . .' : god, race, and sex in the late twentieth century / Andrew S. Moore.