Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History
(Part of the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Series)
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Thinking Back is C. Vann Woodward's retrospective view of his experience as one of the foremost historians of the United States. Woodward describes--through a consideration of his previous books and the critical dialogue they have engendered--how the history of the South was viewed and written during the early years of the century, how those views have changed over the decades, and the turbulent forces that have influenced revisions in interpretation, subject matter, and comprehension.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807113778
ISBN13:9780807113776
Release Date:February 1987
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:158 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.7"
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Curious blending of autobiography and criticism
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
In this brief combination of autobiography and criticism, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999)--at his death the dean of southern historians--effectively summarizes his major historical theses and others' criticisms of them, especially those of his three major works, Origins of the New South (1951), Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), and The Burden of Southern History (1960). From the perspective of the twenty-first century, the older orthodoxy from which Woodard drew blood, the world of heroic "redeemers" and wicked carpetbaggers, seems hopelessly antiquated and toothless, perhaps one reason for remembering that it once was a dominant southern motif. Nevertheless, this book seems to be typical of autobiographical works in that the first half proves more interesting than the second.
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