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
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.
Test Your Southern I.Q.! Win a grand prize worth $80 or one of ten second place prizes! Questions from Yellow Dogs, Hushpuppies, and Bluetick Hounds--a quiz book based on the Encyclopedia of South ern Culture--will be featured on The Official "Test Your Southern I.Q." Online Olympiad, April 22-June 10.