Becoming Southern

Author : Christopher Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198030669

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Becoming Southern by Christopher Morris Pdf

Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for--perhaps more so than any other state. Tracing its long histories of economic, social, and cultural evolution, Morris takes a close and richly detailed look at a representative Southern community: Jefferson Davis's Warren County, in the state's southwestern corner. Drawing on many wills, deeds, court records, and manuscript materials, he reveals the transformation of a loosely knit, typically Western community of pioneer homesteaders into a distinctly Southern society based on plantation agriculture, slavery, and a patriarchal social order. "This thoughtful, well-written study doubtless will be widely read and deservedly influential."--American Historical Review.

Author : Orville Vernon Burton,Eldred E. Prince, Jr.
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611176537

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Becoming Southern Writers by Orville Vernon Burton,Eldred E. Prince, Jr. Pdf

Southern writers, historians, and artists celebrate the life and career of a beloved mentor, friend, and colleague Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern Writers pays tribute to South Carolinian Charles Joyner's fifty year career as a southern historian, folklorist, and social activist. Exceptional writers of fact, fiction, and poetry, the contributors to the volume are among Joyner's many friends, admirers, and colleagues as well as those to whom Joyner has served as a mentor. The contributors describe how they came to write about the South and how they came to write about it in the way they do while reflecting on the humanistic tradition of scholarship as lived experience. The contributors constitute a Who's Who of southern writers—from award-winning literary artists to historians. Freed from constraints of their disciplines by Joyner's example, they enthusiastically describe family reunions, involvement in the civil rights movement, research projects, and mentors. While not all contributors are native to the South or the United States and a few write about the South only occasionally, all the essayists root their work in southern history, and all have made distinguished contributions to southern writing. Diverse in theme and style, these writings represent each author's personal reflections on experiences living in and writing about the South while touching on topics that surfaced in Joyner's own works, such as race, family, culture, and place. Whether based on personal or historical events, each one speaks to Joyner's theme that "all history is local history, somewhere."

Author : Steven Roby,Brad Schreiber
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306819452

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Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Steven Roby,Brad Schreiber Pdf

Becoming Jimi Hendrix traces “Jimmy’s” early musical roots, from a harrowing, hand-to-mouth upbringing in a poverty-stricken, broken Seattle home to his early discovery of the blues to his stint as a reluctant recruit of the 101st Airborne who was magnetically drawn to the rhythm and blues scene in Nashville. As a sideman, Hendrix played with the likes of Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, the Isley Brothers, and Sam & Dave—but none knew what to make of his spotlight-stealing rock guitar experimentation, the likes of which had never been heard before. From 1962 to 1966, on the rough and tumble club circuit, Hendrix learned to please a crowd, deal with racism, and navigate shady music industry characters, all while evolving his own astonishing style. Finally, in New York’s Greenwich Village, two key women helped him survive, and his discovery in a tiny basement club in 1966 led to Hendrix instantly being heralded as a major act in Europe before he returned to America, appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival, and entered the pantheon of rock’s greatest musicians. Becoming Jimi Hendrix is based on over one hundred interviews with those who knew Hendrix best during his lean years, more than half of whom have never spoken about him on the record. Utilizing court transcripts, FBI files, private letters, unpublished photos, and U.S. Army documents, this is the story of a young musician who overcame enormous odds, a past that drove him to outbursts of violence, and terrible professional and personal decisions that complicated his life before his untimely demise.

Author : Christopher Charles Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Vicksburg (Miss.)
ISBN : OCLC:1035657631

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Becoming Southern by Christopher Charles Morris Pdf

Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801884985

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Southern Sons by Lorri Glover Pdf

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Author : Christopher Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0195134214

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Becoming Southern:The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 by Christopher Morris Pdf

Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for--perhaps more so than any other state. Tracing its long histories of economic, social, and cultural evolution, Morris takes a close and richly detailed look at a representative Southern community: Jefferson Davis's Warren County, in the state's southwestern corner. Drawing on many wills, deeds, court records, and manuscript materials, he reveals the transformation of a loosely knit, typically Western community of pioneer homesteaders into a distinctly Southern society based on plantation agriculture, slavery, and a patriarchal social order."This thoughtful, well-written study doubtless will be widely read and deservedly influential."--American Historical Review.

Author : Christopher Charles Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Vicksburg (Miss.)
ISBN : 0197711650

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Becoming Southern by Christopher Charles Morris Pdf

By exploring Warren County's history, Morris traces the evolution of Old South society from its pioneer origins to the onset of the Civil War. This is a study of a society's development, a snapshot of a community in crisis, which challenges many traditional notions about the American South.

Author : Charlotte Hays
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781621571605

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When Did White Trash Become the New Normal? by Charlotte Hays Pdf

Tattoos. Unwed pregnancy. Giving up on shaving…showering…and employment. These used to be signatures of a trashy individual. Now they’re the new norm. What happened to etiquette, hygiene, and self restraint? Charlotte Hays, Southern gentlewoman extraordinaire, takes a humorous look at the spread of white trash culture to all levels of American society.

Author : Maryjean Wall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813139524

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How Kentucky Became Southern by Maryjean Wall Pdf

The conflicts of the Civil War continued long after the conclusion of the war: jockeys and Thoroughbreds took up the fight on the racetrack. A border state with a shifting identity, Kentucky was scorned for its violence and lawlessness and struggled to keep up with competition from horse breeders and businessmen from New York and New Jersey. As part of this struggle, from 1865 to 1910, the social and physical landscape of Kentucky underwent a remarkable metamorphosis, resulting in the gentile, beautiful, and quintessentially southern Bluegrass region of today. In her debut book, How Kentucky Became Southern: A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders, former turf writer Maryjean Wall explores the post–Civil War world of Thoroughbred racing, before the Bluegrass region reigned supreme as the unofficial Horse Capital of the World. Wall uses her insider knowledge of horse racing as a foundation for an unprecedented examination of the efforts to establish a Thoroughbred industry in late-nineteenth-century Kentucky. Key events include a challenge between Asteroid, the best horse in Kentucky, and Kentucky, the best horse in New York; a mysterious and deadly horse disease that threatened to wipe out the foal crops for several years; and the disappearance of African American jockeys such as Isaac Murphy. Wall demonstrates how the Bluegrass could have slipped into irrelevance and how these events define the history of the state. How Kentucky Became Southern offers an accessible inside look at the Thoroughbred industry and its place in Kentucky history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : PRNC:32101050722501

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Southern Cultivator by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2612243

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The Southern Cultivator and Industrial Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Greg Guldin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429982729

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What's A Peasant To Do? Village Becoming Town In Southern China by Greg Guldin Pdf

Since China entered the post-Mao "Reform Era" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off as few economies ever have. Labor migration, rural enterprises, rising production, and globalization have all combined to end the isolation of the Chinese countryside. Yet although China's unsurpassed economic boom has produced reams of impressive statistics, has this economic growth led to improving the livelihood of the average Chinese person? Has development accompanied economic growth? Has the promise of "opening to the outside" been fulfilled in providing a better life for China's 1.2 billion-plus people? In this book, which is based on field work, Guldin presents and explores some of the changes sweeping through China in the 1990s that are affecting hundreds of millions of people. Guldin looks at the growth of town and village enterprises, labor mobility, and the other aspects of rural urbanization to investigate the connection between economic growth and development in contemporary China. The political changes at the village level, the swelling flows of capital, data, goods, and people, new ways of thinking and behaving, and a significant surge in social inequalities are all topis for chapter discussions. Guldin invites readers to face the same question that former Chinese peasants must face, namely, how to respond, as their villages are transformed forever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : International broadcasting
ISBN : UCAL:C2605004

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London Calling by Anonim Pdf

Author : John T. Edge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780698195875

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The Potlikker Papers by John T. Edge Pdf

“The one food book you must read this year." —Southern Living One of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades Like great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, slave owners ate the greens from the pot and set aside the leftover potlikker broth for the enslaved, unaware that the broth, not the greens, was nutrient rich. After slavery, potlikker sustained the working poor, both black and white. In the South of today, potlikker has taken on new meanings as chefs have reclaimed it. Potlikker is a quintessential Southern dish, and The Potlikker Papers is a people’s history of the modern South, told through its food. Beginning with the pivotal role cooks and waiters played in the civil rights movement, noted authority John T. Edge narrates the South’s fitful journey from a hive of racism to a hotbed of American immigration. He shows why working-class Southern food has become a vital driver of contemporary American cuisine. Food access was a battleground issue during the 1950s and 1960s. Ownership of culinary traditions has remained a central contention on the long march toward equality. The Potlikker Papers tracks pivotal moments in Southern history, from the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s to the rise of fast and convenience foods modeled on rural staples. Edge narrates the gentrification that gained traction in the restaurants of the 1980s and the artisanal renaissance that began to reconnect farmers and cooks in the 1990s. He reports as a newer South came into focus in the 2000s and 2010s, enriched by the arrival of immigrants from Mexico to Vietnam and many points in between. Along the way, Edge profiles extraordinary figures in Southern food, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Colonel Sanders, Mahalia Jackson, Edna Lewis, Paul Prudhomme, Craig Claiborne, and Sean Brock. Over the last three generations, wrenching changes have transformed the South. The Potlikker Papers tells the story of that dynamism—and reveals how Southern food has become a shared culinary language for the nation.

Author : Southern Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : PSU:000063006704

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