Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Book Overview

The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.

The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is the first attempt ever notes U.S. News & World Report, to describe every aspect of a region's life and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807818232
• ISBN13: 9780807818237
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 1656 Pages
• Weight: 8.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.1" x 8.8" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Book !!!

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.

A must for ever southerner

This book is a wonderful, interesting look of the south and it's history and cultures.