Discovering North Carolina

A Tar Heel Reader
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8078-4434-2
Verlag: Longleaf on behalf of Univ of N. Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Chapel Hill Books

This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways. There are selections by or about some of the state's best-known sons and daughters, from Daniel Boone and Andrew Jackson to Ava Gardner, Doris Betts, and Tom Wicker; and topics covered include politics, sports, business, family life, education, race, religion, and war. Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti and a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. Focusing on the inclusion of West African and European elements

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Über Autor(innen)

Jack Claiborne, longtime associate editor of The Charlotte Observer, is now vice president of Park Communications, Inc.
William Price is Kenan Professor of History at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.