Böcker av John Shelton Reed

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents and colourful street life. A young William Faulkner resided among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter." In Dixie Bohemia John Shelton Reed brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the Jazz Age.

In the informal, engaging essays brought together in One South, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South's strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades if the twentieth century, of Southern cultural distinctiveness.

For over three decades John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South

Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady, 'lord of the lash' and cunning belle, fun-loving 'good old boy, ' depraved redneck, and other figures--that have animated the region since antebellum times.

For over three decades John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South

This work collects some of John Shelton Reed's classic essays which offer an introduction to the sociology of the South. Beginning with the roots of regional sociology, Reed examines threads of continuity and change in southern sociology, including issues like southern stereotypes.