Michael O'Brien was a professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge who focused on Southern intellectual history. He also taught at Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and Miami University.

• Preface to the paperback editionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The LegacyChapter 1. On the Idea of the South: Origins, Mutation, and FragmentationPart II. The Sociological Vision: Howard OdumChapter 2. Odum: Sociology in the SouthChapter 3. Odum: Southern SociologyChapter 4. Odum: The Failure of Regionalism entr'acte: A Still Point: John WadeChapter 5. Wade: A Turning InwardPart III. The Reaction to Modernism: The Southern AgrariansChapter 6. John Ransom: The Cycle of CommitmentChapter 7. Allen Tate: 'The Punctilious Abyss"Chapter 8. Frank Owsley: 'The Immoderate Past"Chapter 9. Donald Davidson: "The Creed of Memory"Part IV. The Survival of Southern IdentityChapter 10. The Idea of the South: An InterpretationNotesBibliographical noteIndex

Michael O'Brien was a professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge who focused on Southern intellectual history. He also taught at Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and Miami University.

• Preface to the paperback editionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The LegacyChapter 1. On the Idea of the South: Origins, Mutation, and FragmentationPart II. The Sociological Vision: Howard OdumChapter 2. Odum: Sociology in the SouthChapter 3. Odum: Southern SociologyChapter 4. Odum: The Failure of Regionalism entr'acte: A Still Point: John WadeChapter 5. Wade: A Turning InwardPart III. The Reaction to Modernism: The Southern AgrariansChapter 6. John Ransom: The Cycle of CommitmentChapter 7. Allen Tate: 'The Punctilious Abyss"Chapter 8. Frank Owsley: 'The Immoderate Past"Chapter 9. Donald Davidson: "The Creed of Memory"Part IV. The Survival of Southern IdentityChapter 10. The Idea of the South: An InterpretationNotesBibliographical noteIndex

Michael O'Brien was a professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge who focused on Southern intellectual history. He also taught at Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and Miami University.

• Preface to the paperback editionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The LegacyChapter 1. On the Idea of the South: Origins, Mutation, and FragmentationPart II. The Sociological Vision: Howard OdumChapter 2. Odum: Sociology in the SouthChapter 3. Odum: Southern SociologyChapter 4. Odum: The Failure of Regionalism entr'acte: A Still Point: John WadeChapter 5. Wade: A Turning InwardPart III. The Reaction to Modernism: The Southern AgrariansChapter 6. John Ransom: The Cycle of CommitmentChapter 7. Allen Tate: 'The Punctilious Abyss"Chapter 8. Frank Owsley: 'The Immoderate Past"Chapter 9. Donald Davidson: "The Creed of Memory"Part IV. The Survival of Southern IdentityChapter 10. The Idea of the South: An InterpretationNotesBibliographical noteIndex