Plain folk of the South revisited / edited by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.

Other author Hyde, Samuel C., 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Working class--Southern States. --History. --Congresses.
Middle class--Southern States. --History. --Congresses.
Southern States--Social life and customs. --Congresses.
Southern States--Social conditions. --Congresses.

Contents Home, labor, and leisure: Neither Anglo-Saxon nor Celtic : the music of the Southern plain folk / Bill C. Malone. Vernacular architecture of the South : log buildings, dog-trot houses, and English barns / Jerah Johnson. Herders, farmers, and markets on the inner frontier : the Mississippi piney woods, 1850-1860 / Bradley G. Bond. Question of peonage in the history of the New South / J. William Harris -- Social groups and attitudes: Southern women and the Sunday-school movement, 1865-1915 / Sally G. McMillen. Shades of ambiguity : comparing Antebellum free people of color in "Anglo" Alabama and "Latin" Louisiana / Gary B. Mills. Crackers and cavaliers : shared courage / Grady McWhiney -- Plain-folk democracy and its limits: Popular ideology of the Old South's plain folk : the limits of egalitarianism in a slaveholding society / Lacy K. Ford. Backcountry justice in the piney-woods south / Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. New South demagoguery / Michael L. Kurtz.
General noteBased on a symposium held in spring 1996 at Southeastern Louisiana University.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97020625
ISBN0807122009 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks F209 .P57 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold