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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.00321
EAN num: 9780807818237
ISBN number: 0807818232
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 1656
Printing Date: September 18, 1989
Publishing house: The University of North Carolina Press
Sale Popularity Level: 324649
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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This encyclopedia, a ten-year project involving more than 800 scholars and writers, offers an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation's richest cultural landscapes. 349 illustrations, 15 maps.
Amazon.com Review:
The American South, it has been said, is the most European of the nation's sections in manner and outlook, distinct enough that it may be reckoned to have its own--slippery term--culture. Its literature, language, climate, economy, cuisine, and history are recognizably different from those of New England and the Midwest, and even yesterday Southerners remember that their homeland was once an independent nation crushed by a foreign military power. These may be justifications enough to warrant this massive regional encyclopedia, although a few questions go a-begging. (What, for instance, would an encyclopedia of American culture writ large contain? Do the mountaineers of Tennessee share a culture with the Gullah-speaking farmers of the South Carolina coast? Just what does culture mean, anyway?) In any case, the editors have assembled a fine roster of contributors who write on sweeping topics--African American life, agriculture, literature, the 'mythic South,' and the like--elaborated on by short essays on narrower subjects. The book was rightly voted Best Reference Book of 1989 by the American Library Association.
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This is a great book. I enjoy hours of reading it. All of my childhood memories of growing up in Little Rock come back.
Being forced out of Arkansas to California to complete my education after Governor Faubus closed the schools, didn't dampen my view of the South.
I plan to buy all of the new subjects that have just been published by these publishers.
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This book is a wonderful, interesting look of the south and it's history and cultures.
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