John Egerton's The Americanization of Dixie: A Fifty-Year Retrospective.

2024 marks the fifty-year anniversary of the publication of John Egerton's The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America (1974), a seminal work on regional and national identity. What did this book get right? What did it get wrong? Fifty years later, it still resonates. From states' r...

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Published in:Mississippi Quarterly Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 31 - 58
Main Author: STRAIN, CHRISTOPHER
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2024
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