A Southern State Of Mind

Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033124
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern State of Mind written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkably removed from the devotional, certifying, and celebratory view of the South that has dominated books of this genre, The Southern State of Mind addresses the question of whether inherited Southern values, problems, and contradictions have survived the onslaught of modernization."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Elynda Robert
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644718944
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Southern State of Mind written by Elynda Robert and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern State of Mind-a lighthearted, contemporary Christian romance-takes place in the fictitious town of Mullerton, Mississippi, located between Jackson and Hattiesburg. It is the story of the Willis family who own prosperous Willis Farms. Matriarch Olivia Willis, not wanting to be responsible for such a large enterprise after the death of her husband, divides up the farm, giving it to loyal family members who have worked there for so many years. After receiving an unwelcome proposal at work, granddaughter Rose Ann Willis is not sure she can continue working at the prestigious Pausey and Associates Law Firm in Jackson. Since her lifelong dream has been to own her own restaurant, maybe it is time to try her hand at running a business. Grandmother Olivia helps make this a reality by providing some of the necessary finances for a Southern State of Mind Café. While remodeling the house that will serve as the new restaurant, Rose Ann is surprised to see her close high school friend, Landon Cummings, who has returned to Mullerton to repair the family home after his grandfather caused a fire at the house. He volunteers to help her get her new endeavor off the ground. Will he stay in Mullerton or go back to his girlfriend and fancy career in New York? Rose Ann and her best friend, Ava-Lynn Watson, both single, are ready for new directions in their lives. What does the future hold? Can they both find love? The answers lie in A Southern State of Mind!

Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern State of Mind written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gustavus J. Orr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best School System for a Southern State written by Gustavus J. Orr and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul M. Gaston
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603061444
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New South Creed written by Paul M. Gaston and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious -- that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the transformation of that dream into widely accepted myths, shielding and perpetuating a conservative, racist society. Many young moderates of the period created a philosophy designed to enrich the region -- attempting to both restore the power and prestige and to lay the race question to rest. In spite of these men and their efforts, their dream of a New South joined the Antebellum illusion as a genuine social myth, with a controlling power over the way in which their followers, in both North and South, perceived reality.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338303
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flashes of a Southern Spirit written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807152161
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Fighting the Civil War written by David Goldfield and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats the Lost Cause with unblinking directness.... its main strength: the stress on the weight of memory and its enduring links to white supremacy." -- David W. Blight, Southern Cultures "Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as contemporary reporting, this deftly written historical analysis takes on a difficult topic with passion, sensitivity, and integrity." -- Publishers Weekly In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's residents and in the national news headlines of battle flags, racial injustice, and religious conflicts. Goldfield candidly discusses how and why white southern men fashioned the myths of the Lost Cause and Redemption out of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and how they shaped a religion to canonize the heroes and deify the events of those fateful years. He also recounts how groups of blacks and white women eventually crafted a different, more inclusive version of southern history and how that new vision competed with more traditional perspectives. The battle for southern history, and for the South, continues -- in museums, public spaces, books, state legislatures, and the minds of southerners. Given the region's growing economic power and political influence, understanding this struggle takes on national significance. Through an analysis of ideas of history and memory, religion, race, and gender, Still Fighting the Civil War provides us with a better understanding of the South and one another.

Author : Polly Powers Stramm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493045407
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quotable Southerner written by Polly Powers Stramm and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southerners have always had something to say. Focusing on the unique qualities of both the landscape and people, Quotable Southerner showcases the linguistic insight of the region’s native and adopted sons and daughters. Sometimes insightful, sometimes hilarious, these quotes will have readers smiling, laughing, and shaking their heads.

Author : Diane Miller Sommerville
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146964357X
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aberration of Mind written by Diane Miller Sommerville and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469664992
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Way of Life written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class. Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes readers on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of "southern civilization" rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural "southern living." As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.