The Old World’s New World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: C. Vann Woodward
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Intellectual history
- Time of Work: 1789-1989
- Setting: America and Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Communism or communists, Colonies or colonization, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Wealth, Animals, Industrialization
- Locales: Europe, United States
C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale, is best known for his work in Southern United States history. His books on the region are devoted to its culture and its prominent figures such as Tom Watson and Mary Chesnut. His Origins of the New South (1951) won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 1952, and an edition of Mary Chesnut’s diary won the Pulitzer Prize for 1982. Among his works outside regional history, the most notable is his account of World War II’s greatest sea battle, The Battle for Leyte Gulf (1947). During the late 1970’s, Woodward...
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