The Burden of Southern History"C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. The third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward--wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written"--P. [4] of cover. |
Contents
The Historical Dimension | 27 |
John Browns Private War | 41 |
The Deferred Commitment | 69 |
The Political Legacy | 89 |
A Southern Critique for the Gilded Age | 109 |
The Populist Heritage and the Intellectual | 141 |
What Happened to | 167 |
The Irony of Southern History | 187 |
The Burden for William Faulkner | 265 |
The Burden for Robert Penn Warren | 281 |
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