Download or read book Away Down South written by James C. Cobb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms. After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as their African American counterparts in the "Harlem Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned, the South confronted a new identity crisis brought on by global homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New South become the No South? Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.

Download or read book Culture in the South written by W. T. Couch and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This composite picture of the present-day South is a far cry from the traditional South of sentimental novels. The symposium, including chapters by thirty-one economists, sociologists, educators, artists, and writers, is the most comprehensive, revealing, and authentic picture of the South yet published. Originally published in 1934. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Download or read book Away Down South written by James C. Cobb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms. After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as their African American counterparts in the "Harlem Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned, the South confronted a new identity crisis brought on by global homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New South become the No South? Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.

Download or read book Down South written by William Hardwick and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this raw, tough, and uncensored account, Marine 2nd Lt. Hardwick recounts his 13-month tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968--referred to in Okinawa as "Down South"--as an artillery forward observer. photos. Original.

Download or read book Deep South Deep North written by Lottie B. Scott and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep South – Deep North By: Lottie B. Scott In Deep South – Deep North: A Family’s Journey, Lottie B. Scott tells both the heartbreaking and triumphant tale of her maturation into adulthood against a racially-charged, impoverished, yet fiercely loving backdrop in Longtown, South Carolina. Scott traces her family history, peppered with familial violence and love alike. She describes her early childhood years of living amidst a sea of brothers, until little sisters finally arrived. Under the cloud of racial discrimination, difficult farm working conditions, and family tensions, Scott describes the unbreakable bonds of love that eventually emerged to forever bind her family members together. As the passing years turn to decades, and family members move north, Scott reveals how these bonds of love become a transformative power, forever altering the lives of each member of her family.

Download or read book Down South written by Samuel Phillips Day and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Download or read book Down South written by Donald Link and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The James Beard Award-winning chef behind some of New Orleans’s most beloved restaurants, including Cochon and Herbsaint, Donald Link unearths true down home Southern cooking in this cookbook featuring more than 100 reicpes. Link rejoices in the slow-cooked pork barbecue of Memphis, fresh seafood all along the Gulf coast, peas and shell beans from the farmlands in Mississippi and Alabama, Kentucky single barrel bourbon, and other regional standouts in 110 recipes and 100 color photographs. Along the way, he introduces all sorts of characters and places, including pitmaster Nick Pihakis of Jim ‘N Nick’s BBQ, Louisiana goat farmer Bill Ryal, beloved Southern writer Julia Reed, a true Tupelo honey apiary in Florida, and a Texas lamb ranch with a llama named Fritz. Join Link Down South, where tall tales are told, drinks are slung back, great food is made to be shared, and too many desserts, it turns out, is just the right amount.

Download or read book Way Up North in Louisville written by Luther Adams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adams makes a splendid contribution to the historical literature of the post-World War II years in African American and U.S. urban and social history. Grounded in careful research from a variety of primary and secondary sources, this book advances a comp

Download or read book Down South for the Summer written by Patricia Bellamy-Mathis and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down South for the Summer is the story of a Black family from the Northeast taking their annual road trip to see their grandparents in South Carolina. Set in the 1990s, this story highlights the quintessential Black experience --- sleek braids and beads, everyone (and then some) piling into the family van, and playing road trip games during the long drive. Once in the South, the family enjoys being wrapped in Grandma's shea butter hugs, the freshest meals farmed from the family land, waving hello to the friendliest neighbors and of course getting darker shades of mochas, caramels and chocolates from the hours spent playing in the Carolina sun. This story promotes the adventure and love that carries through the Black family from state to state, from road meal to home-cooked meal and in every small, yet memorable family experience.

Download or read book Resurgent Politics and Educational Progressivism in the New South North Carolina 1890 1913 written by H. Leon Prather and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two major purposes of this study are to describe how a unique mixture of politics and racial attitudes coalesced to involve education and to identify and analyze the major forces associated with and propelling the public school movement between 1902 and 1913 in the South.

Download or read book The Irish in the South 1815 1877 written by David T. Gleeson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially. The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.

Download or read book Easy Vastu Practices for Better Living written by Hseham Amrahs and published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our homes are more than physical structures; they are reflections of our inner selves and repositories of our memories. This book guides readers through crafting homes that resonate with positive vibrations. By aligning with Vastu principles, we set the stage for a harmonious living—where energy flows freely and every corner exudes a sense of peace, balance, and well-being. While Vastu draws from ancient Indian wisdom, its principles are universally applicable. Whether you reside in a bustling metropolis or a serene countryside, the principles of Vastu can be adapted to suit diverse lifestyles and environments. This book recognizes the uniqueness of personal spaces and offers guidance that is flexible, encouraging readers to tailor Vastu practices to their individual preferences and needs. Vastu, at its core, is about aligning our homes with the natural forces that surround us. It is an acknowledgment that our well-being is intricately connected to the rhythms of nature. As we delve into "Easy Vastu Practices for Better Living," we discover how simple adjustments in our living spaces can bring us in alignment with the inherent balance found in the natural world.

Download or read book West of Slavery written by Kevin Waite and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.

Download or read book Up South in the Ozarks written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins is a collection of essays from Brooks Blevins that explore southern history and culture using [the] author's native Ozarks region as a focus. From migrant cotton pickers and fireworks peddlers to country store proprietors and shape-note gospel singers, Blevins leaves few stones unturned in his insightful journeys through a landscape 'wedged betwixt and between the South and the Midwest - and grasping for the West to boot"--

Download or read book Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800 written by Alan O'Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern Irish history from the passing of the Act of Union to the premiership of Bertie Ahern. Offering a full chronology , this book gives the reader a full insight on major aspects of modern Irish history. The book explores population, education, social structure and religion; economic statistics covering agriculture, trade, prices and wages, transport and unemployment and a further wealth of material on Irish women's history, treaties, elections, law, communications, a glossary and biographical information.

Download or read book The South for New Southerners written by Paul D. Escott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays offer newcomers to the region information on Southern culture and history, and advice on adjusting to life in the contemporary South

Download or read book North vs South Collection written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 10753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this unique collection of the carefully picked out Civil War novels and stories:_x000D_ History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)_x000D_ The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)_x000D_ The Little Regiment (Stephen Crane)_x000D_ The Veteran (Stephen Crane)_x000D_ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)_x000D_ A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce)_x000D_ Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce)_x000D_ The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (Mark Twain)_x000D_ A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)_x000D_ The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Crisis (Winston Churchill)_x000D_ Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (John William De Forest)_x000D_ With Lee in Virginia (G. A. Henty)_x000D_ Who Would Have Thought It? (María Ruiz de Burton)_x000D_ The Long Roll (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ Cease Firing (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis (Thomas Dixon Jr.)_x000D_ Kincaid's Battery (George Washington Cable)_x000D_ The Border Spy (Harry Hazelton)_x000D_ The Battle Ground (Ellen Glasgow)_x000D_ Who Goes There? (B. K. Benson)_x000D_ Ailsa Paige (Robert W. Chambers)_x000D_ Special Messenger (Robert W. Chambers)_x000D_ How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion (George W. Peck)_x000D_ Raiding with Morgan (Byron A. Dunn)_x000D_ Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (John Esten Cooke)_x000D_ Brother Against Brother (John R. Musick)_x000D_ The Last Three Soldiers (W. H. Shelton)_x000D_ A War-Time Wooing (Charles King)_x000D_ The Iron Game (Henry F. Keenan)_x000D_ The Blockade Runners (Jules Verne)_x000D_ The Lost Despatch (Natalie Sumner Lincoln)_x000D_ My Lady of the North (Randall Parrish)_x000D_ Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson (John McElroy)_x000D_ The Red Acorn (John McElroy)_x000D_ Winning His Way (Charles Carleton Coffin)_x000D_ A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison)_x000D_ Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins)_x000D_ The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale)