The mind of the South

Ever since its publication in 1941, this book has been recognized as a path-breaking work of scholarship and as a literary achievement of enormous eloquence and insight in its own right. From its investigation of the Southern class system to its pioneering assessments of the region's legacies o...

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Main Author: Cash, W. J. 1900-1941.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Edition:Vintage books ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • The mind of the South: its origin and development in the old South. Of time and frontiers ; Of the man at the center ; Of an ideal and conflict
  • The mind of the South: its curious career in the middle years. Of the frontier the Yankee made ; Of quandary, and the birth of a dream
  • The mind of the South: its survival, its modifications, and its operation in our time. Of easing tensions, and certain quiet years ; Of returning tensions, and the years the cuckoo claimed ; Of the great blight, and new quandaries.