Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and
cultural approaches, the nine essays in this book provide a probing
look at the South's diversity and its important place in the
national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's
well-worn mythic images and the diversity that bred such
influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy
Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper. The chapters illustrate the
South's complexity in assessing the region's plain folk, slave
panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement.
The book untangles the South's mythology and offers fresh and
penetrating insights into the ongoing reassessment of the
region.
Written by leading experts on the South's rich past, this book
provides nine essays on the history of the South. Utilizing
biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural
approaches, the essays provide a probing look at the South's
diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors
explore the tension between the South's well-worn images and the
diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei,
Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper.
The South has always been a land of complexity and change. "A
Mythic Land Apart" illustrates this in assessing the region's plain
folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and
temperance movement. Whether captured in fiction, film, or
historical literature, the South's history remains intertwined with
its mythic self. The essays in this book untangle the South's
mythololgy and offer fresh and penetrating insights into the
ongoing reassessment of the region.
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