The burden of southern history
By: C. Vann Woodward ; with a foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg.
Edition: Updated 3rd ed.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807133804
Subjects: Southern States -- Civilization
Description: "C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. The third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. This updated third edition also features a new foreword by historian William E. Leuchtenburg in which he recounts the events that led up to Woodward's writing The Burden of Southern History, and reflects on the book's?and Woodward's--place in the study of southern history. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward--wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The search for southern identity; title: The historical dimension; title: John Brown's private war; title: Equality : the deferred commitment; title: The political legacy of the first Reconstruction; title: A southern critique for the Guilded Age; title: The populist heritage and the intellectual; title: What happened to the civil rights movement; title: The irony of southern history; title: A second look at the theme of irony; title: Look away, look away; title: The burden for William Faulkner; title: The burden for Robert Penn Warren.