wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Religion in the South
ISBN: 9781604734102 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Showing the undeniable truth that religion has been a powerful force in creating and maintaining southern regional distinctiveness, this volume of essays by leading scholars explores key aspects of southern religious development, concentrating on the dominant evangelical tradition. It focuses on crucial time periods--the antebellum years, the late nineteenth century, and the contemporary era--and examines topics that are central to understanding southern religion. The papers in this volume were presented in 1984 at the annual Porter L. Fortune Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History... Showing the undeniable truth that religion has been a powerful force in creating and maintaining southern regional distinctiveness, this volume of ... |
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158,81 zł |
The American South: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199943517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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49,09 zł |
The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South
ISBN: 9781469664989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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185,37 zł |
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 3: History
ISBN: 9780807856918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict, a bloody Civil War fought and lost on its soil, massive in- and out-migration, major economic transformations, and a civil rights movement that brought fundamental change to the social order.
Charles Reagan Wilson's... Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly su...
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219,62 zł |
Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South
ISBN: 9780820338293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Flashes of a Southern Spirit" explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.Charles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic spirit expressed in the high emotions of Confederates going off to war, but the region also was the setting for a spiritual outpouring of prayer and song during the civil rights movement. Arguing for a spiritual grounding to southern identity, Wilson shows how identifications of the spirit are...
"Flashes of a Southern Spirit" explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional charact...
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744,16 zł |
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory
ISBN: 9780807856925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.
The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition.... This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historic...
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164,44 zł |
Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the South
ISBN: 9780820338309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Flashes of a Southern Spirit" explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.Charles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic spirit expressed in the high emotions of Confederates going off to war, but the region also was the setting for a spiritual outpouring of prayer and song during the civil rights movement. Arguing for a spiritual grounding to southern identity, Wilson shows how identifications of the spirit are...
"Flashes of a Southern Spirit" explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional charact...
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191,89 zł |
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
ISBN: 9780820334257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause. As Charles Reagan Wilson writes in his new preface, "The Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression, and recent scholarship affirms its continuing power in the minds of many white southerners."
Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rh...
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136,23 zł |
Witness to Injustice
ISBN: 9781604738865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Witness to Injustice by David Frost, Jr. edited by Louise Westling with an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson There were two events in particular that had a lasting effect on the life of David Frost, Jr. "Watching my parents make moonshine in our back yard in a washpot," he says, "and listening to my parents tell the story of how the Peterson boy was lynched here in Eufaula. My parents would tell it like it had just happened." In this compelling account of his life as an African American in Eufaula, Alabama, Frost illuminates the strange world of the rural South. He was a living witness to...
Witness to Injustice by David Frost, Jr. edited by Louise Westling with an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson There were two events in particular t...
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219,82 zł |
The South and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9781934110379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the trade of sugar, rum, and African slaves in the islands that form a perimeter around the Gulf of Mexico, the broad expanse of water known as the Caribbean ringed what came to be known as the South. Today concise political boundaries separate the coasts of the American South from the multicultural worlds that dominate the islands. Yet all anecdotal evidence suggests far greater ties. One listens to the reggae in the streets of New Orleans or to the rumba in Atlanta. One notes the moans of the blues in the cafes of Veracruz and watches Major League games in which young Dominican... With the trade of sugar, rum, and African slaves in the islands that form a perimeter around the Gulf of Mexico, the broad expanse of water known a... |
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219,82 zł |
Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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315,88 zł |
Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121285 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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780,26 zł |