Research Catalog

Title

Southern character : essays in honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown / edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel Kilbride ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Frank, Lisa Tendrich.
• Kilbride, Daniel, 1968-

Description

xvi, 301 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Essays examining the character of the Southern gentleman, representing the works of historian Bert Wyatt-Brown and stressing the plural--not monolithic--nature of the South"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Southern dissent

Uniform Title

Southern dissent

Subject

• Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-
• HISTORY / Social History
• Group identity > Southern States > History
• Women > Southern States > History
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
• Southern States > Civilization
• Southern States > History
• Southern States > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Accidental Yankee : Bertram Wyatt-Brown and southern history / Charles Joyner -- What then makes an Indian? : the problem of identity in the early American Southeast / Andrew K. Frank -- The strange career of Gideon Gibson : an early American tragedy / Christopher Morris -- The politics of honor and masculinity : political culture in the Deep South, 1820s-1861 / Christopher J. Olsen -- 'We are Virginians for the time being' : antebellum Quakers and regional identity in the Upper South / A. Glenn Crothers -- 'Ohio villains' and 'pretenders to new revelations' : Wesleyan abolitionists in the South, perfectionism, and the antebellum religious divide / Randall J. Stephens -- The South and the revolutions of 1848 / Daniel Kilbride -- Abraham Lincoln and southern honor / Daniel W. Stowell -- 'Between death and dishonor' : defending Confederate womanhood during Sherman's March / Lisa Tendrich Frank -- 'Neither matron nor maid' : race, gender, class, and marriage in Jim Crow Texas / Stephanie Cole -- Voodoo in black and white / Jeffrey E. Anderson -- Donald Davidson and the segregationist intellect / Benjamin Houston -- The cross Florida Barge Canal and the politics of environmentalism / Chris Beckmann, Steven Noll, and David Tegeder -- Southern conservatism and its discontents : Mel Bradford and the American right / John J. Langdale III -- 'Freedom is a wonderful thing, but . . .' : god, race, and sex in the late twentieth century / Andrew S. Moore.

ISBN

• 9780813036908 (hardback)
• 0813036909 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2011018983

OCLC

• 709674058
• SCSB-11867987

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library