Placing the South

by Michael O'Brien

Book Overview

The best from twenty years of a noted intellectual historian's work Placing the South offers a selection of work published between 1985 and 2005 by one of the most incisive historians and literary critics of the South. The pieces seek to situate the South in a variety of contexts and offer a compelling defense of what Kwame Anthony Appiah has called "rooted cosmopolitanism." This is a mode of understanding based on respect for what is local and an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617032026
• ISBN13: 9781617032028
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"