Townways of Kent Contributor(s): Patrick, Ralph C. Jr. (Author), Reed, John Shelton (Editor), Reed, Dale Volberg (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1570037272 ISBN-13: 9781570037276 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Regional Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | Social History |
Dewey: 307.760 |
LCCN: 2007043382 |
Series: Southern Classics (Univ of South Carolina) |
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.63" W x 7.94" (0.52 lbs) 174 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Chronological Period - 1950's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Immersion into town life in York, South Carolina, was an easy task for Robert C. Patrick Jr., a native of nearby Gastonia, North Carolina, who had familial ties to York's elite. But his personal connections proved to be a mixed blessing to the project. His informants were more forthcoming than they might have been with an outsider, but he never published his findings--to protect the privacy of his friends, he said. Now Patrick's 1954 Harvard dissertation has been edited by John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed to produce this first publication of Townways of Kent. It invites modern readers to experience midcentury small-town life as seen by the town's white upper and middle classes, and in particular from the viewpoint of Old Kent families. Often disparaging in their views of the neighboring African American and mill village communities, the townfolk proved to be further subdivided along rigorously defined lines of economic status and ancestry, but pride in maintaining their particular vision of the town shines through. The volume also includes an introduction by the Reeds to place Patrick's work in its historical context. |