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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
C Vann Woodward |
ISBN: | 9780807133804 0807133809 |
OCLC Number: | 221151647 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xxx, 304 pages ; 22 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 Guilded 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 -- Look away, look away -- The burden for William Faulkner -- The burden for Robert Penn Warren. |
Responsibility: | C. Vann Woodward ; with a foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg. |
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Abstract:
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 distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience.
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