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...Fronde Kennedy Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The Southern Rose-Bud and the Southern Rose Fronde Kennedy Montreat, N. C. A primrose by the river s brim is, concededly, to many very excellent and in certain ways intelligent persons, merely a yel­ low primrose nothing more...

...John A. Salmond Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 The Great Southern Commie Hunt : Aubrey Williams, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and the Internal Security Subcommittee John A. Salmond On March 6, 1954, as Aubrey W. Williams Alabama publisher, president...

...Gary C. Ness Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 The Southern Politics Project and the Writing of Recent Southern History Gary C. Ness The fertile mind of Roscoe C. Martin, director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of Alabama, was the point of origin...

...Charles L. Flynn, Jr. The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 . By Perman Michael . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1984 . Pp. xiv , 353 . $32.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 195 ties. Most humanistic scholars...

...Laurence Shore The Poverty of Tragedy in Historical Writing on Southern Slavery Laurence Shore It is generally accepted that the history of the South contains the elements of tragedy. Countless critics explain that the Southern Literary Renascence may be traced to a vision of struggle, defeat...

...Kevin Pierce Thornton Symbolism at Ole Miss and the Crisis of Southern Identity Kevin Pierce Thornton In the fall of 1982, twenty years after the rioting that made the school famous, the University of Mississippi once again was the subject of national attention. This time there was no violence...

... The History of Southern Literature. Edited by Louis D. Rubin et al. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 626. $29.95. This is the third and unquestionably most important of the major editorial projects on Southern literature that Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has overseen and the Louisiana...

...Thomas D. Clark Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a Southern Conservative . By Bradford M. E. . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. vii , 178 . $32.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 392 The South Atlantic Quarterly Remembering Who We...

...Gerald W. Hartwig Southern Africa in Perspective: Essays in Regional Politics . Edited by Potholm Christian P. Dale Richard . New York : The Free Press , 1972 . Pp. xiii , 418 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly Black Political...

...Thomas Daniel Young The Folk of Southern Fiction . By Skaggs Merrill Maguire . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1972 . Pp. xiii , 280 . $11.00 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Book Reviews 413 nated five in French, and more than one hundred in German...

...Billy H. Wyche Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Southern Newspapers View Organized Labor in Billy H. Wyche The American press, like so many other social institutions, suffered a crisis of confidence during the depression-ridden thirties. Critics depicted it as incurably...

...Phinizy Spalding British Drums on the Southern Frontier: The Military Colonization of Georgia, 1733–1749 . By Ivers Larry E. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1974 . Pp. xiii , 274 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 390 The South...

...Merl E. Reed Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The FEPC, the Black Worker, and the Southern Shipyards Merl E. Reed With the approach of World War II, the nation s shipbuilders moved quickly to secure lucrative defense contracts from the federal govern­ ment. Under the supervision...

...William E. Laird; James R. Rinehart Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Exogenous Checks on Southern Economic Development William E. Laird and James R. Rinehart There has been considerable interest in the causes of the long­ term material backwardness of the South, and various...

...William W. Kelly Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe . By Holman C. Hugh . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1966 . Pp. xiv , 95 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 275 Three Modes...

...Robert F. Durden Writing Southern History: Essays in Historiography in Honor of Fletcher M. Green . Edited by Link Arthur S. Patrick Rembert W. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1966 . Pp. x , 502 . $12.00 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967...

...Charles B. Dew Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Two Approaches to Southern History: Psychology and Quantification Charles B. Dew In recent years historians seeking to explain the complex and often baffling history of the South have begun to employ two new and potentially...

...James D. Graham Southern Nigeria in Transition 1885-1906: Theory and Practice in a Colonial Protectorate . By Anene J. C. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1966 . Pp. xii , 360 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 197 appeared a few...

...Louis W. Hodges Southern Churches in Crisis . By Hill Samuel S. Jr. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1966 . Pp. xvii , 234 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 193 how the South lived in expectancy of change without actually experi­...

...Frank Durham Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The Southern Literary Tradition: Shadow or Substance? Frank Durham A little before the turn of the century, in his self-printed and selfpublished volume of Purely Original Verse, J. Gordon Coogler, the Sweet Singer of Columbia, South...