{"product_id":"a-mythic-land-apart-reassessing-southerners-and-their-history-hardcover","title":"A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas H. Appleton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn David Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the nine essays in this book provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's well-worn mythic images and the diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper. The chapters illustrate the South's complexity in assessing the region's plain folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement. The book untangles the South's mythology and offers fresh and penetrating insights into the ongoing reassessment of the region. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten by leading experts on the South's rich past, this book provides nine essays on the history of the South. Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the essays provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's well-worn images and the diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe South has always been a land of complexity and change. \u003ci\u003eA Mythic Land Apart\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates this in assessing the region's plain folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement. Whether captured in fiction, film, or historical literature, the South's history remains intertwined with its mythic self. The essays in this book untangle the South's mythololgy and offer fresh and penetrating insights into the ongoing reassessment of the region.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOHN DAVID SMITH is Graduate Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 1988), \u003ci\u003eUlrich Bonnell Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 1990), \u003ci\u003eAnti-Black Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (11 vols., 1993), and \u003ci\u003eBlack Voices from Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e (1996). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHOMAS H. APPLETON, JR., serves as editor of publications for the Kentucky Historical Society. He is collaborating with Charles P. Roland on a biography of former Kentucky governor, U.S. Senator, and Commisioner of baseball Albert B. Happy Chandler.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521477525725,"sku":"9780313293047","price":194.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/OkprlTacWq9780313293047.webp?v=1772259997","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/a-mythic-land-apart-reassessing-southerners-and-their-history-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}