Citizen-scholar : essays in honor of Walter Edgar / edited by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., with the assistance of Evan A. Kutzler.

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English
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Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016]
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xiv, 275 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "Citizen-Scholar comprises essays written in honor of Walter Edgar, South Carolina's preeminent historian and founding director of the University of South Carolina (USC) Institute for Southern Studies. In the opening overview of Edgar's impressive academic career, editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., discusses Edgar's role as the Palmetto State's omnipresent public historian, radio program host, author of the landmark South Carolina: A History, and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia. The former George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies, and Louise Fry Scudder Professor, Edgar has been recognized with inductions into the South Carolina Hall of Fame and the South Carolina Higher Education Hall of Fame and has received the South Carolina Order of the Palmetto and the South Carolina Governor's Award in the Humanities. The first section of Citizen-Scholar features personal essays about Edgar and his legacy from author and historian Winston Groom, USC vice president Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, USC president Harris Pastides, and historian Mark M. Smith. The essays that follow are written by some of the nation's most renowned scholars of southern history and culture including Charles Joyner, Andrew H. Meyers, Barbara L. Bellows, John M. Sherrer III, Orville Vernon Burton, Bernard E. Powers Jr., Peter A. Coclanis, John McCardell, James C. Cobb, Amy Thompson McCandless, and Lacy K. Ford, Jr. The second section of the collection includes essays spanning a range of regional, national, and international topics, all associated with Edgar's research. These essays were written as a tribute to Edgar, both as a historian and as a public scholar, a man actively involved in his profession as well as in his community, both locally and statewide"-- Provided by publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-259) and index.
    Contents
    • Part 1. Citizen-scholar
    • Walter in metamorphosis / Winston Groom
    • Walter Bellingrath Edgar: the permanent file and academic citizenship / Mary Anne Fitzpatrick
    • Walter Edgar and squash / Harris Pastides
    • Walter Edgar as listener / Mark M. Smith
    • Part 2. Essays in honor of Walter Edgar
    • Furling that banner: the rise and fall of the Confederate flag in South Carolina, 1961-2000 / Charles Joyner
    • Walter Edgar and the southern military tradition / Andrew H. Myers
    • The grand jury in colonial South Carolina: an index of societal concerns / Larry D. Watson
    • The worlds of John Tunno: Scottish emigrant, Charleston loyalist, London merchant, 1746-1819 / Barbara L. Bellows
    • Rediscovering Milo H. Berry: Columbia artisan and businessman, 1843-1907 / John M. Sherrer III
    • Localism and Confederate nationalism: the transformation of values from community to nation in Edgefield, South Carolina / Orville Vernon Burton
    • "Is the rubicon passable?": African Methodism and the gospel of freedom in nineteenth-century South Carolina / Bernard E. Powers Jr.
    • Another "faithful index": inventive activity and economic innovation in nineteenth-century South Carolina / Peter A. Coclanis
    • William Gilmore Simms and his world after the Civil War: a new look at Joscelyn / John M. McCardell Jr.
    • From "cracklins" to "gourmet bacon puffs": the complex origins and shifting shape of Southern foodways / James C. Cobb
    • Extended horizons: lowcountry women in World War II / Amy Thompson McCandless
    • Twenty-first-century South Carolina's economic development dilemma: the evolution of a crisis, 1950-2014 / Lacy K. Ford Jr.
    ISBN
    • 9781611177503 ((hardback))
    • 1611177502 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016047770
    OCLC
    949866180
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