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...David L. Smiley Place Over Time: The Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness . By Degler Carl N. . The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History, 1976 . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1977 . Pp. xiv , 138 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University...

...Carl N. Degler Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Revival in Reconstruction History A Review Essay of Region, Race, and Reconstruction; Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward Carl N. Degler Although today biographers of John C. Calhoun do not quote the death­ bed words ascribed...

...Carl N. Degler Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 The Great Reversal: The Republican Party s First Century Carl N. Degler When the Republican National Committee, meeting on January 22, 1965, replaced Chairman Dean Burch with Ray Bliss, it was behaving in expected fashion...

...Carl N. Degler The Feminization of American Culture . By Douglas Ann . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1977 . Pp. x , 403 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 BOOKS The Feminization of American Culture. By Ann Douglas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Pp. x...

...: The Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness. By Carl N. Degler. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in South­ ern History, 1976. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 138. $8.95. Because he considers himself an outsider looking in, Carl Degler has always stood among the most tenacious...

... Quarterly Southerners are still different from other Americans, but here he sharply limits those differences. In a lengthy chapter devoted to an attack upon the radically different South thesis of Eugene Genovese, Degler speaks in warm support of basic similarities. Genovese s interpretation, he declares...

... class, and ultimately with slaveholders in general. By contrast, I have found major divisions within a diverse slaveholding class, along with a general tendency away from paternalism and toward an acceptance of liberal democ­ racy and free-market commercialism (pp. xii-xiii). Carl N. Degler...

..., along with a general tendency away from paternalism and toward an acceptance of liberal democ­ racy and free-market commercialism (pp. xii-xiii). Carl N. Degler, a distinguished historian, is quoted on the dust jacket of this book as saying that Oakes has restored a sense of reality to our under­...

... critics agree that while his logic is excellent, his­ torical data do not support many of his conclusions. Carl Degler, David Potter, and Seymour Lipset, for example, have all noted that there is little in fact to indicate that Americans before 1900 were more inner-directed than they appear to be today...

... from the pen of Carl N. Degler. A Myrdalian in his interpretive synthesis Out of Our Past (1959), Degler apparently lost much of his optimism after the turmoil of the 1960 s and his comparative research on slavery and race rela­ tions in Brazil and the United States. At any rate, in 1969 he belittled...

... for feminiza­ tion but a more accurate one historically, as well. STANFORD UNIVERSITY CARL N. DEGLER Five Temperaments. By David Kalstone. New York: Oxford Uni­ versity Press, 1977. Pp. 212. $10.95. Though in the end no amount of ingenuity can give five individual po«ts with five strongly marked temperaments...

... Degler consider Donald s Scalawag article in 1966 8 Journal of Southern History, X (Nov., 1944), 447-60. 4 In 1960 Woodward again noted postwar Whiggery. The Burden of Southern History (Baton Rouge, 1960), p. 80. 5 Persistent Whiggery in the Confederate South, p. 305. 6 Kenneth M. Stampp, The Era...

... white historians of slavery and the South, including C. Vann Wood­ ward of Yale, Richard C. Wade of Chicago, and Carl Degler of Stanford, concur with Styron about the relative scarcity of actual insurrections in this country, particularly as compared with the Professor of history at Duke, Mr. Durden has...

... historians. Some, such as Oscar and Mary Handlin, assert that the institution began only after several decades during which the lot of the Negro servant scarcely differed from that of the white bondsman. Others seem still to assume that the institution began as early as 1619. Although Carl Degler...

... candidate at Stanford University. He is presently teaching history at Scripps College. He wishes to acknowledge the valuable counsel of Barton Bernstein, Steven Channing, and Carl Degler. 1. One should note the major exception to this rule, presidential addresses, a liter­ ary form at which Woodward...

...., 17. 15 Ibid., 301. 16 See Annette Kolodny, The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the Frontier (Chapel Hill, 1984). 17 As quoted in Carl Degler, At Odds; Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (New York, 1980), 281. 18 Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman...

... Degler that fear and dislike of the dark, including its manifestation in skin tones, are human universals. He shows that there was no color prejudice in ancient Egypt and no anti-African feeling in ancient Israel or Homeric Greece.6 (In­ deed, Homer saw the Ethiopians as the most virtuous of all peoples...

... Weakness of Mr. Hoover, Harper s, June, 1930, pp. 1-7, his Interpretations, 1931-1932 (New York, 1933), and Interpre­ tations, 1933-1935 (New York, 1935), selected and edited by Allan Nevins; and Carl N. Degler, The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover, Yale Review, LII (June 1963), 565-83. s Most frequently cited...