"A discriminating guide to Dixology."--Esquire
Book Jacket of the Encyclopedia of Southern 
Culture

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris
Ann J. Abadie and Mary L. Hart, Associate Editors
Foreword by Alex Haley

An instant hit when it was published in 1989, the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation's richest cultural landscapes. The Encyclopedia was a ten-year project involving more than 800 scholars and writers, developed by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

"The Encyclopedia shimmers with information about a region veiled in legend."--Smithsonian

"An invaluable piece of work, a resounding reaffirmation that the South does indeed exist in fact as well as myth, despite and because of the profound and often wrenching changes of the past three decades."--Hodding Carter, Washington Post

"There are treasures within that make the book a favorite for readers above or below the Mason-Dixon line."--Newsweek

"As definitive a survey of the South as could be wished for."--Economist

"An exhaustive work. . . . The book's very existence defends the notion--disputed by some scholars--that the South is indeed a unique regional culture, far different from the American norm."--Vogue

"The Encyclopedia shimmers with information about a region veiled in legend."--Smithsonian

Published in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture by the University of North Carolina Press.

ISBN 0-8078-1823-2, $69.95 hardcover
1656 pp., 349 illus., 15 maps

To order your copy, call 1-800-848-6224 or download an order form to fax. Say you saw it on UNC Press Online.

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