The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture 

General Editor: Charles Reagan Wilson

Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi 

When the University of North Carolina Press joined with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi to publish the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture in 1989, a pathbreaking reference work was born. The first reference book to deal exclusively with an American regional culture, the Encyclopedia has served as a model for many similar projects at the state and regional levels. In the years since the Encyclopedia was published, globalization, economic transformations, and other cultural shifts have profoundly changed the South. 

From 2005-2013, UNC Press and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture joined forces again to publish The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the original reference that reflects the ongoing dynamism of the region and new scholarship on its cultural life.  This edition is published as a series of 24 individual volumes based on the thematic sections of the original Encyclopedia. 

The series is now complete, and all 24 volumes are now available as E-books. 

Series Editors 

Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor 
James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor 
Ann J. Abadie, associate editor 

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