books by C. Vann Woodward (1877-1913 southern approach)

books by C. Vann Woodward

books:

Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, (A History of the South)

2 reviews
C. Vann Woodward

Louisiana State University Press, 1971

Landmark view of southern history
This work, along with the "Strange Career of Jim Crow" form the basis of much of scholarly study on the south for the last 40 years. Most strikingly, he shows the relationship between economic and poltical reform and the issue of race. Demagougery on the issue of race prevented reform movements liket he POpulists from ever proving relief for improverished farmers. Perhaps the most memorable ...

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

8 reviews
Mary Chesnut

Yale University Press, 1993

Immerse Yourself In Chesnut's Suffering World
Mary Chesnut was a name dropper, and thank goodness, because in passing along her gossip, opinions, news, and personal undertakings, she created the most comprehensive day-to-day record of life in the Confederacy that we have. Although this is both a diary and a later refurbishment of earlier writings (to the point it almost becomes a memoir in epistolary form) Mrs. Chesnut, an aristocratic lady ...

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

9 reviews
C. Vann Woodward

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Segregation: What It Was and What It Wasn't
C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow is not only a fine introduction to its topic -- the segregationist period in the South -- but one of the most significant and influential books of its time. Originally published in 1955 (by Oxford University Press), Professor Woodward's tome kicked off the Civil Rights era with a bang, debunking the ludicrous myth (and mantra among ...

The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle

3 reviews
C. Vann Woodward

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

Crossing the T for the last time
"Oh Hell, they got away!" - A signalman aboard the U.S.S. Fanshaw Bay after the Japanese battleships and cruisers that had been savaging two American escort carrier divisions during the Battle off Samar (Leyte Gulf) inexplicably broke off contact and retired In October 1944, troops commanded by General MacArthur invaded the Philippines. Knowing that the loss of these islands would cut their ...

The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (A Galaxy Book)

2 reviews
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Oxford University Press, USA, 1984

America's Own Pepys
This is the one indispensible book for anyone interested in what went on in the South behind the battle lines. As Pepys gives us a living picture of the London and court of Charles II, so does M. Chesnut give us a bird's eye view of the Confederate government and the society she lived in. A wise and witty woman, Mary Chesnut spent most of the war years close to ground zero in Richmond, VA. She ...

The Burden of Southern History

1 review
C. Vann Woodward

Louisiana State University Press, 2008

Essays from a Southern Intellectual
This is a collection of essays on then contemporary southern culture and history. The essays generally deal with the transformation then taking place- the end of segregation, the civil rights movement, and surging population and industrial development. The essays have a sentimental quality I don't find in more modern writings. They are short in the quality of thesis ('Southern Identity lies ...

Comparative Approach to American History
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Diane Pub Co, 1997

In the mid-1960s, Woodward was asked to organize a program of broadcast lectures on U.S. history for the "Voice of America" as part of a longer series designed to acquaint foreign audiences with leaders in Amer. arts & sciences. Woodward commissioned 22 noted scholars to cover classic topics in Amer. history -- the Civil War, the World Wars, slavery, immigration, & many others -- but to add a comparative dimension by relating these topics to ...