{"product_id":"a-mythic-land-apart-thomas-h-appleton-9780313293047","title":"A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas H. Appleton,John David Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 031329304X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313293047\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Thomas H. Appleton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086477340927,"sku":"9780313293047","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3cd16242-b353-4406-b42b-2db098e5fb48.jpg?v=1769094890","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-mythic-land-apart-thomas-h-appleton-9780313293047","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}