Away Down South

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Away Down South is written by James C. Cobb and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199839301 (ISBN 10) and 9780199839308 (ISBN 13).

From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, this book offers a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. This is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.