Myths and Realities Societies of the Colonial South

by Carl Bridenbaugh

Book Overview

Anne Warfield Rawls argues that, although Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religion is the crowning achievement of his sociological accomplishments, it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689700237
• ISBN13: 9780689700231
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good introduction to several major southern cultures

Carl Bridenbaugh examines three major cultures of the eighteenth-century colonial South. Bridenbaugh examines the individual characters of the Chesapeake, the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Southern Backcountry. A thorough and colorful portrait of life in each culture is offered. There were multiple cultures in the South. Bridenbaugh examines three Southern societies, and the contrasts between them are illuminating. The book concentrates on developments after the formative seventeenth century, and before the tumult of the Revolution.