Charles Reagan Wilson (Professor Emeritus of History and Southern S

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The American South

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

This book provides a concise introduction to the history and culture of the American South. Charles Reagan Wilson explores Southern history alongside the creative achievements that have come out of the region, producing a portrait of a complex American place.

Autor

Charles Reagan Wilson is Professor Emeritus of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. The author of three historical studies and editor of a dozen more, Wilson has organized fifteen conferences and symposia. He served as the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture (1998-2007) and the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History (2007-2015), and worked extensively with graduate students in history and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the editor-in-chief of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (2013), the coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), and the coeditor of The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017). Frequently interviewed by such media outlets as CNN, the SEC Network, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and southern newspapers and magazines, he has been an essayist and reviewer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Raleigh News-Observer. Most recently, he served as an Obama Fellow at the Obama Institute of Transnational American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 114mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9780199943517
• ISBN-10: 0199943516
• Artikelnr.: 58774942