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Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Character
by William R. Taylor
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harvard University Press (1980-03)
ISBN: 0674104404
EAN: 9780674104402
Hardcover: 394 pages
SKU: WB206163
Condition: Fair
Comments: 0674104404 Previous owner has already highlighted some significant bits. The cover shows only minor shelf wear, creases and "used" stickers. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960s. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. First published in 1961 and out of print for several years, Taylor's classic study remains essential to the study of the pre-Civil War South.
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Customer Reviews
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Disappointing
Rating  (2)
Date: 1999-04-24
7 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you think this book details the divurgence of American culture in the 1800s, you will be disappointed. Author spends too much time encapsulating the plots of dozens of novels, some of them rather obscure. His main point of the south as a declining culture and thus a culture winding its way to secession out of frustration is dubious. Author spends a lot of time detailing the decline of Virginia's worn out tobacco plantations but chooses not to discuss the spectacular economic growth of the South's western cotton plantations.
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