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  • Subduing Satan

    Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920

    by Ted Ownby ...
    The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex — and often opposing — attitudes.“Ownby’s re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the saloon and the street, the cockfighting and dogfighting rings as realms of distinctly male vices, enjoyed lustily ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • American Dreams in Mississippi

    Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998

    by Ted Ownby ...
    The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi — a state long associated with poverty, inequality, and rural life. But as Ted Ownby demonstrates in this innovative study, consumer goods and shopping have played important roles in the development of class, race, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hurtin' Words

    Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South

    by Ted Ownby ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern Studies
    When Tammy Wynette sang “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” she famously said she “spelled out the hurtin' words” to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

    Edited by Ted Ownby ...
    With essays by Tony Badger, David L. Chappell, Elizabeth Jacoway, Richard H. King, Ralph E. Luker, Charles Marsh, Keith D. Miller, Linda Reed, and Lauren F. WinnerIn the 1950s and 1960s the American South was in upheaval. Brilliant thinkers and writers joined on-the-ground activists to challenge segregation and the South's long established Jim Crow society. The men and women who opposed them waged ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Mississippi Encyclopedia

    Edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, James G. Thomas Jr. ...
    Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage TrustThe perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Manners and Southern History

    Edited by Ted Ownby ...
    The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Southern Religion, Southern Culture

    Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson

    Edited by Darren E. Grem, Ted Ownby, James G. Thomas Jr. ...
    Series series Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
    Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Randall J. StephensOver more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson’s research and writing transformed southern studies in key ways.This volume pays tribute to and extends Wilson’s seminal work on southern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Manners and Southern History

    Edited by Ted Ownby ...
    Series series Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
    Contributions by Catherine Clinton, Joseph Crespino, Jane Dailey, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Anya Jabour, John F. Kasson, Jennifer Ritterhouse, and Charles F. Robinson IIThe concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

    Edited by Ted Ownby ...
    Series series Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
    Contributions by Chris Myers Asch, Emilye Crosby, David Cunningham, Jelani Favors, Françoise N. Hamlin, Wesley Hogan, Robert Luckett, Carter Dalton Lyon, Byron D'Andra Orey, Ted Ownby, Joseph T. Reiff, Akinyele Umoja, and Michael Vinson WilliamsBased on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in the state most ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

    Edited by Ted Ownby ...
    Series series Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
    Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in the state most resistant to change. Wesley Hogan, Françoise N. Hamlin, and Michael Vinson Williams raise questions about how civil rights organizing took place. Three pairs of essays address African Americans' and whites' stories on education, religion, and the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Mississippi Encyclopedia

    Edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, James G. Thomas Jr. ...
    Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage TrustThe perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless ... Read more

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  • The Larder

    Food Studies Methods from the American South

    by Andrew Warnes, Angela Jill Cooley, Beth Latshaw, Carolyn de la Peña, David S. Shields, Jessica B. Harris, Justin A. Nystrom, Katie Rawson, Marcie Ferris, Psyche Williams-Forson, Rayna Green, Rebecca Sharpless, Rien Fertel, Tom Hanchett, Wiley C. Prewitt Jr. ...
    Series series
    The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies.The ... Read more

    $33.99 USD