Available for download Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity

• Author: James C. Cobb
• Published Date: 12 Jan 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Language: English
• Book Format: Paperback::416 pages, ePub
• ISBN10: 0195315812
• ISBN13: 9780195315813
• Publication City/Country: New York, United States
• Dimension: 156x 236x 26mm::575g
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Available for download Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity. Despite the extensive literature on southern identity, we know surprisingly little about how regional identity competes with potential loyalties toward other groups in the South. James C. Cobb's Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity is that rare book published an academic press that can be wrapped up and given as a Christmas present. An engaging, accessible, and thoroughly enjoyable read, Away Down South is a comprehensive history of the ways different southerners, nearly all of them writers of one sort or another, have thought about their region … James C. Cobb’s book Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity, published Oxford University Press, examines the history, literature and popular culture of the Southern region. Read Away Down South PDF - A History of Southern Identity James C. Cobb Oxford University Press | From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today In an ongoing revisionist history effort, Southern schools and Cobb in his 2005 book "Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity." History books were unfair to the South, "Cobb takes over 200 years of southern intellectualism and condenses it into a readable history of southern historyAn accessible, wide-ranging picture of southern identity, useful for students, professionals, and those generally interested in how the South sees itself." -Matthew L. Downs, Southern Historian "The inhabitants of Away Down South come at us thick and fast, benighted and "Coming out of the experience of the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, there was a sense of wounded pride and grievance," says James Cobb, a history professor at the University of Georgia and the author of Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. Divided a common past:history and identity in the contemporary South; The South and the politics of identity. Summary From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen -and then came Away Down South A History of Southern Identity James C. Cobb. Paints a brilliant portrait of southern identity, with an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture, from the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag In terms of Southern identity, I think it exists. The Southern identity has firm roots in its history but is ever changing like the people inside of the South. I found a history of the South as fits a timeline, but I think the actual history of the South is better found in the oral stories passed through generations. Read "Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (review), Southeastern Geographer" on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Away Down South addresses the baffling and enduring questions of the nature, causes, purposes, effects, and manifestations of a Southern sense of identity, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing down to the early years of the twenty-first, with over four-fifths of the book being devoted to the period since the Civil War. The study of southern identity is a well-established field; Away Down South soars above standard on most counts, but still falls to some of the pitfalls of the genre. In view of its stated aim “to come to terms with the South’s role as both a real and imagined cultural entity separate and distinct from the rest of the country” (8) Cobb’s book both excels and, to some extent, disappoints. Click to read more about Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity James C. Cobb. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers Blackness and Southernness:African Americans look south toward home Divided a common past:history and identity in the contemporary South The South and the politics of identity. Subject headings Group identity -Southern States -History. Southern States -Civilization. Southern States -Race … James C. Cobb’s Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity is that rare book published an academic press that can be wrapped up and given as a Christmas present. An engaging, accessible, and thoroughly enjoyable read, Away Down South is a comprehensive history of the ways different southerners, nearly all of them writers of one sort or another, have thought about their region and Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity - Kindle edition James C. Cobb. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. His books include The Selling of The South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 (Illinois, 1993), The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (Oxford, 1992),and Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Oxford, 2005). James C. Cobb has 21 books on Goodreads with 1728 ratings. James C. Cobb’s most popular book is Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. What makes the South Southern? Is it the history of slavery and segregation? The unrelenting heat? NASCAR? All this and more, says the University of Georgia historian Cobb ( What Was Southern Culture Like in the Colonial Period? Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity; His work has been published in "The Journal of Southern History," "The Georgia Historical Quarterly," "The Southern Historian," "The Journal of Mississippi History" and "The Oxford University Companion to American Law. The South has become "sort of like a lifestyle, rather than an identity anymore," James Cobb, author of the newly published "Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity," would argue. To this day, the Cavalier name lives on as the University of Virginia's mascot. James C. Cobb covers the history of this Cavalier cultural identity in his book, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity.

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