Books that changed the South / by Robert B. Downs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downs, Robert B. (Robert Bingham), 1903-1991.

Series:

Littlefield, Adams quality paperback ; no. 326.

A Littlefield, Adams quality paperback ; no. 326

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Reviews.

Books.

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Civilization.

Genre:

Reviews.

Physical Description:

xvii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Littlefield, Adams, 1977.

Contents:

1. The first American: Captain John Smith's The general historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles

2. An American Pepys: William Byrd's History of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina

3. American statesman: Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

4. Terrestrial paradise: William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida

5. History versus legend: Mason Locke Weem's The life of Washington the Great

6. Folk hero: A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

7. Yarns of frontier life: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia scenes

8. Slave plantation: Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a resident on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839

9. From slavery to freedom: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave written by himself

10. Political philosopher: John Caldwell Calhoun's A disquisition on government

11. Hated helper: Hinton Rowan Helper's The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

12. Southern traveler: Frederick Law Olmsted's The cotton kingdom

13. Southern panorama: Edward King's The great South

14. Romantic New Orleans: George W. Cable's Old Creole days

15. Black folk tales: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings

16. Father of waters: Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi

17. Moonlight and magnolia: Thomas Nelson Page's In ole Virginia

18. The great compromiser: Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from slavery

19. Black Protestant: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's The souls of Black folk

20. Hymn of hate: Thomas Dixon's The clansman: a historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan

21. Antebellum South: Ulrich Bonnell Phillip's Life and labor in the old South

22. Nostalgia for never-never land: Twelve Southerners' I'll take my stand

23. Regional inventory: Howard W. Odum's Southern regions of the United States

24. Nation within a nation: W.J. Cash's The mind of the South

25. Reconstruction to the new freedom: C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the new South, 1877-1913.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index.

ISBN:

0822603268

9780822603269

OCLC:

2985136