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Confederate Women, by Bell Irvin Wiley (HC, 1994, $2)
Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South- 1865 to 1913, by Gaines M. Foster (HC, 1987, $3)
Foster believes that "southerners realistically accepted defeat and rapidly embraced both reunion and a New South. The South's celebration of the Civil War... rather than reviving sectionalism and creating a special social identity, fostered sectional reconciliation and supported an emerging social order." This is not necessarily my opinion, but I haven't read the book.
**SOLD**
Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture, by Charles Joyner (TPB, 1999, $2.50)
Shared Traditions "reveals the essence of southern culture in the complex and dynamic interactions of descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans."
And my "most interesting" award goes to: ***SOLD***
Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans, by James Gill (TPB, 1998, $2.50)
The majority of people living in New Orleans are black, but Carnival, though started in the French and Spanish days, was established in the Civil War era by a white male elite. For translation of "white male elite" read non- women, black, Jewish, Italian, or even the descendants of Republicans of the Reconstruction era. Learn here how some people have tried to desegregate Mardi Gras, and whether they have been successful or not. What is not discussed here, as the book was written in 1998, is what form Mardi Gras has taken post-2005 (Katrina).
Look for these books on the new non-fiction table. Avail. 8/30.
