Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity

Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity by Cobb, James C.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8580000033861.

From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Toms Cabin to Civil Rights museums and todays 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 Americas 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.