The Southern Way of Life The Southern Way of Life

The Southern Way of Life

Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South

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Publisher Description

How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class.

Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes readers on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of "southern civilization" rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural "southern living." As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2022
November 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
616
Pages
PUBLISHER
The University of North Carolina Press
SELLER
Ingram DV LLC
SIZE
18.3
MB
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