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Genre/Form: | Essays |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999. Burden of Southern history. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1968] (OCoLC)556701363 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
C Vann Woodward |
ISBN: | 0807101338 9780807101339 |
OCLC Number: | 167923 |
Description: | xvi, 250 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The search for Southern Identity -- The historical dimension -- John Brown's private war -- Equality: the deferred commitment -- The political legacy of the first Reconstruction -- A Southern critique for the Gilded Age -- The populist heritage and the intellectual -- What happened to the Civil Rights Movement -- The irony of Southern history -- A second look at the theme of irony. |
Responsibility: | C. Vann Woodward. |
Abstract:
In this book, the author addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience.
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