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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
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Description for The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
Paperback. "Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press." Editor(s): Jackson, Harvey H. Num Pages: 368 pages, 31 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; GBC; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their ""leisure,"" reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities. Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the ... Read more
What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their ""leisure,"" reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities. Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807871737
SKU
V9780807871737
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About
Charles Reagan Wilson, a Texan, is professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 and editor of Religion in the South
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