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      C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian

      James C. Cobb

      With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward was a historian of singular importance. A brilliant writer, his work captivated both academic and public…

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      Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South

      James C. Cobb

      Surveys the remarkable story of southern identity and its persistence in the face of sweeping changes in the South’s economy, society, and political structure.

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      The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity

      James C. Cobb

      The 1954 Brown v Board of Education ruling is a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the US. Examining how our historical understanding of segregation has evolved…

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      The Mississippi Delta and the World: The Memoirs of David L. Cohn

      No one knew the Mississippi Delta more intimately or told its story more eloquently than did David L. Cohn (1894-1960). Between 1935 and 1960 he produced ten books including his…

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      Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984

      James C. Cobb

      Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in…

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      The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

      Examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. This volume reflects the variety of southern life…

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      The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity

      James C. Cobb

      The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the US. Writing as both an historian and a white southerner…

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      Georgia Odyssey

      James C. Cobb

      Offers a survey of Georgia’s history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its standing as an international business mecca, from the self-imposed isolation of its Jim Crow era…

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      The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-90

      James Cobb

      From the Great Depression to the Sunbelt Era the South has pursued industrial development as the remedy for its economic ills. The mixed results of this ongoing crusade are chronicled…

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      Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860

      Sam Bowers Hilliard

      First published in 1972, it is one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in the antebellum South’s history, culture, and politics. Drawing from diaries, the…

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      Globalization and the American South

      In 1955 the Forbes magazine list of America’s largest corporations included 18 with headquarters in the Southeast. By 2002 it had grown to 123. The essays collected here consider this…

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      The New Deal and the South

      The first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the Roosevelt recovery program on the South

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      New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader

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      Contains twelve essays that examine how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central…

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      New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader

      Anthony J. Badger

      Contains twelve essays that examine how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central…

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      The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity

      James C. Cobb (Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History, Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

      A comprehensive history of the deep South - the bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers - from the first white settlement in the 1820s…

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      Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the Letter from Birmingham Jail

      S. Jonathan Bass

      Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. This volume…

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      The South and America since World War II

      James C. Cobb (B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia)

      The definitive history of the American South since World War II, offering a brisk, but comprehensive and authoritative narrative of politics, race, economics, and culture.

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      The South and America since World WarII

      James C. Cobb (B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia)

      The definitive history of the American South since World War II, offering a brisk, but comprehensive and authoritative narrative of politics, race, economics, and culture.

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      Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity

      James C. Cobb (B. Phinizy Spaulding Professor of History of the American South, B. Phinizy Spaulding Professor of History of the American South, University of Georgia)

      In this unique synthesis of political, cultural, and intellectual history by a historian at the peak of his powers, James C. Cobb spans more then two centuries in tracing the…

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      Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity

      James C. Cobb (B. Phinizy Spaulding Professor of History of the American South, B. Phinizy Spaulding Professor of History of the American South, University of Georgia)

      A sweeping history chronicling nearly two centuries of how Southerners have answered the question of what it means to be Southern, by an eminant historian of the American South.

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      Love in the East; Or, Adventures of Twelve Hours. a Comic Opera in Three Acts. Written by the Author of the Strangers at Home, Etc. [The Dedication Signed: J. C., i.e. James Cobb.]

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      Title: Love in the East; or, Adventures of twelve hours. A comic opera in three acts. Written by the author of the Strangers at Home, etc. [The dedication signed: J…

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