Humor of the Old Southwest
Title | Humor of the Old Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Hennig Cohen |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780820316055 |
One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative frontier humor of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861 in an area that extended from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia westward to Lousiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. Hennig Cohen and William B. Dillingham have tapped the wealth of this region to produce a collection that over the last three decades has become the standard anthology of Old Southwestern humor. This new, extensively revised edition includes an expanded introduction, a dozen replacement sections, an updated bibliography, and works by three new writers--Phillip B. January, Matthew C. Field, and John Gorman Barr. Most generously represented are George Washington Harris, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Selections from twenty-five authors are featured along with brief biographical essays that combine historical and political analysis with perceptive literary criticism. These selections document important facets of antebellum American culture and provide the background of the literary achievement of Mark Twain and William Faulkner.
Old Southwest/new Southwest
Title | Old Southwest/new Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Nolte Temple |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Essays from the Old Southwest/New Southwest Conference held Nov. 14-17, 1985 in Tucson, Ariz. and sponsored by the Tucson Public Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Old Southwest, 1795-1830
Title | The Old Southwest, 1795-1830 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Dionysius Clark |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806128368 |
During the early years of the U.S. republic, its vital southwestern quadrant - encompassing the modern-day states between South Carolina and Louisiana - experienced nearly unceasing conflict. In The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict, historians Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice analyze the many disputes that resulted when the United States pushed aside a hundred thousand Indians and overtook the final vestiges of Spanish, French, and British presence in the wilderness. Leaders such as Andrew Jackson, who emerged during the Creek War, introduced new policies of Indian removal and state making, along with a decided willingness to let adventurous settlers open up the new territories as a part of the Manifest Destiny of a growing country.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest
Title | Pioneers of the Old Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Constance Lindsay Skinner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A History of the Ancient Southwest
Title | A History of the Ancient Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen H. Lekson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. In this view, Chaco Canyon was a geopolitical reaction to the "Colonial Period" Hohokam expansion and the Hohokam "Classic Period" was the product of refugee Chacoan nobles, chased off the Colorado Plateau by angry farmers. Far to the south, Casas Grandes was a failed attempt to create a Mesoamerican state, and modern Pueblo people--with societies so different from those at Chaco and Casas Grandes--deliberately rejected these monumental, hierarchical episodes of their past. From the publisher: The second printing of A History of the Ancient Southwest has corrected the errors noted below. SAR Press regrets an error on Page 72, paragraph 4 (also Page 275, note 2) regarding "absolute dates." "50,000 dates" was incorrectly published as "half a million dates." Also P. 125, lines 13-14: "Between 21,000 and 27,000 people lived there" should read "Between 2,100 and 2,700 people lived there."
Pioneers of the Old Southwest
Title | Pioneers of the Old Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Constance Lindsay Skinner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2018-05-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781720494355 |
The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795–1817
Title | The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795–1817 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert V. Haynes |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 573 |
Release | 2010-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813139570 |
Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention. Since 1540, when Hernando de Soto of Spain journeyed across the Atlantic and became the first European to stumble across its borders