Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred

by David R. Goldfield

In this challenging look at some of the historical forces actively at work in today's South, David Goldfield draws pointed, provocative links between the "Lost Cause" mythology that emerged from the chaos of Confederate defeat, the region's reputation for intolerance, and southern evangelical Protestantism. History, religion, and culture can be so intertwined in the South, notes Goldfield, that changing one's point of view threatens simultaneously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820325619
• ISBN13: 9780820325613
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.9"