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New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 21: Art and Architecture
Häftad, 2013
471 kr
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From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 22: Science and Medicine
Häftad, 2012
399 kr
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Science and medicine have been critical to southern history and the formation of southern culture. For three centuries, scientists in the South have documented the lush natural world around them and set a lasting tradition of inquiry. The medical history of the region, however, has been at times …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 1: Religion
Häftad, 2006
399 kr
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Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious …
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Volume 2: Geography
Häftad, 2006
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The location of ""the South"" is hardly a settled or static geographic concept. Culturally speaking, are Florida and Arkansas really part of the same region? Is Texas considered part of the South or the West? This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" graples with the contestable …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 3: History
Häftad, 2006
471 kr
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Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"", this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory
Häftad, 2006
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This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 5: Language
Häftad, 2007
399 kr
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The fifth volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" explores language and dialect in the South, including English, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant communities. Immigration helped spread features of Southern English …
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Volume 6: Ethnicity
Häftad, 2007
399 kr
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Transcending familiar categories of ""black"" and ""white,"" this volume of ""The New Encyclopedia"" complicates and enriches our understanding of ""southernness"" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. Essays examine the ways people perform and maintain cultural …
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Volume 7: Foodways
Häftad, 2007
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When the original ""Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry. Food has always been central to southern culture, but the past twenty years have brought an explosion in interest in foodways, particularly in the …
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Volume 8: Environment
Häftad, 2007
399 kr
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From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" surveys the dynamic environmental forces that …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 9: Literature
Häftad, 2008
399 kr
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This work documents the evolution of southern literature.Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of …
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Volume 10: Law and Politics
Häftad, 2008
428 kr
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This book portrays the legal and political character of a changing South. Volume 10 of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" combines two of the sections from the original edition, adding extensive updates and 53 entirely new articles. In the law section of this volume, 16 longer essays …
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Volume 12: Music
Häftad, 2009
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This is the first comprehensive stand-alone reference to music in the South.Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry
Häftad, 2008
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This title shows making a living in the South. Volume II of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites …
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Volume 13: Gender
Häftad, 2009
471 kr
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This book addresses manhood and womanhood in the South. This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed …
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Volume 14: Folklife
Häftad, 2010
471 kr
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This book features the dynamic and divergent heart of southern culture. Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of ""The New Encyclopedia …
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Volume 15: Urbanization
Häftad, 2010
399 kr
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Offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.
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Volume 18: Media
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South--and how the South has shaped the history of mass media. An introductory overview by Allison Graham and Sharon Monteith is followed by 40 thematic essays and 132 topical …
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Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their ""leisure,"" reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 23: Folk Art
Häftad, 2013
471 kr
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Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 17: Education
Häftad, 2011
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Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present. With over …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 19: Violence
Häftad, 2011
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Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment. With over 95 entries, …
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 20: Social Class
Häftad, 2012
387 kr
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a timely, authoritative, and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the South from the colonial era to the present. With introductory essays by J. Wayne Flynt and by editors Larry J. Griffin and Peggy G. …
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Volume 24: Race
Häftad, 2013
471 kr
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There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture challenges previous understandings, revealing the region's rich, ever-expanding diversity and providing new explorations of race relations. In 36 …
Southern Cultures
Volume 22, Number 4 - Winter 2016 Issue
Häftad, 2016
136 kr
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This issue of Southern Cultures finds Sundays on parade in New Orleans, the Nasher's Southern Accent exhibition, Charles R. Wilson's last lecture, singing schools in the Ozarks, MLK's foes interviewed, new roots in North Carolina, and more.
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 24 Volume Set
Häftad, 2013
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When the University of North Carolina Press joined with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, USA to publish the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture in 1989, a pioneering reference work was born. The first reference book to deal exclusively with an American …
