Macrobius
10-12-2007, 03:09 AM
Post your favourites. Here are some primary and secondary sources I enjoy, either specifically on or about the South, or with substantial discussion of the Southern colonies. (Tip o' the hat to Roland for suggesting some recommendations).
For general historical framework, the two sources mentioned in the 'Anglosphere Primer' are fairly on target, at least more than the standard histories:
http://www.pattern.com/bennettj-anglosphereprimer.html
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in North America
Phillips, Kevin. The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America, Basic Books, New York.
I also find Jimmy Cantrell's essays (and presumably the books he wrote, but I haven't read them) add necessary balance to these two sources.
There are several collections on the net of Colonial materials, Southern writings, or related to the Revolutionary War or the War Between the States. Some of the more useful are:
http://constitution.org (constitutional law, very broadly)
Virtual Jamestown: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/
The Online Library of Liberty: http://oll.libertyfund.org/
Among the historical documents, Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia at OLL, was specifically designed to influence the French favourably, so it is a bit odd in its bias, but indispensable. He mentions two standard histories of Virginia available in his day, Stith and Beverley. Beverly's is available online at Virtual Jamestown, and very much worth a read -- only a quarter of it deals with history.
Jefferson:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3777&Itemid=28
For a discussion of the politics of America in terms of the Glorious Revolution and the 'Old Whigs', Trevor Colbourn's Lamp of Experience is indispensable:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3817&Itemid=28
For politics, besides the entire collection at constitution.org, we have specifically the two major works of John C. Calhoun (where are included there I think). There are several nice sites that cover the Anti-Federalists.
I've mentioned before Richard M. Weaver's Southern Tradition at Bay which is one of the few 20th century authors I can recommend.
A bit off-topic but not really are parallel discussions of English history. For a deconstruction of the English patriotic myth (part and parcel of Whiggery), Edwin Jones The English Nation:
http://www.amazon.com/English-Nation-Edwin-Jones/dp/0750925191
J.C.D. Clarke's Revisionist works, esp. both editions of English Society, are key. Among English authors, Samuel Johnson and Burke (in reference to the American Revolution), Disraeli, Gladstone (including his speech supporting the Confederacy) are well-known from Neo-Con or Near-Con writers like Russell Kirk. However, they write from a very Northern perspective, as a rule.
Tucker's Blackstone, though about Law, has an extensive appendix on constitutional issues from a Virginian perspective, and that from the days when the rulings of the Jay and Marshall courts were not yet set in stone, blood, and iron.
http://www.constitution.org/tb/tb-0000.htm
Key: http://www.constitution.org/tb/t1e.htm (Appendix: Note E)
I quote Prof. Ziobro of Holy Cross's site, Classical America, and his online book, repeatedly, in the Classics vs. Romantic context:
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/CA97SYLL.html
Thomas Jefferson and the Classics:
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/JeffersonandClassics.html
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/LtinEAmHP.htm
For Anglicanism, besides the Loyalist and Tory sources at constitution.org, the history of Episcopalian (Cavalier, Non-Juror) dissent in Scotland is important, and one of the best sources is:
http://www.episcopalhistory.org.uk/01tullochgorum.html
'Virginia Churchmanship' of the Anglican, gentry type, is essential background, and who can underestimate 'The Parson's Cause', in which Patrick Henry persecuted the tutor of (get this) future presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. All I can say is the Maury was one really good teacher.
Finally, we have the large 'DocSouth' collection, which has very interesting points all its own:
Southern Authors, of the first rank, but often suppressed as un-PC:
Thomas Nelson Page: http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/pageolevir/bio.html
John Pendleton Kennedy, esp. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendancy
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/kennedyhorseshoe/menu.html
Poet Henry Timrod: http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/timrod/menu.html
Esp. his "Ethnogenesis" http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/timrod/timrod.html#timr100
and "Carolina" http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/timrod/timrod.html#timr80
There are many, many others in the author index:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/author/
And the School Textbook collection has an interest all its own:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/global/result.html?term=Education%20--%20Confederate%20States%20of%20America.
A bit of a hodge-podge, but it will save me trouble linking. :)
For general historical framework, the two sources mentioned in the 'Anglosphere Primer' are fairly on target, at least more than the standard histories:
http://www.pattern.com/bennettj-anglosphereprimer.html
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in North America
Phillips, Kevin. The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America, Basic Books, New York.
I also find Jimmy Cantrell's essays (and presumably the books he wrote, but I haven't read them) add necessary balance to these two sources.
There are several collections on the net of Colonial materials, Southern writings, or related to the Revolutionary War or the War Between the States. Some of the more useful are:
http://constitution.org (constitutional law, very broadly)
Virtual Jamestown: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/
The Online Library of Liberty: http://oll.libertyfund.org/
Among the historical documents, Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia at OLL, was specifically designed to influence the French favourably, so it is a bit odd in its bias, but indispensable. He mentions two standard histories of Virginia available in his day, Stith and Beverley. Beverly's is available online at Virtual Jamestown, and very much worth a read -- only a quarter of it deals with history.
Jefferson:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3777&Itemid=28
For a discussion of the politics of America in terms of the Glorious Revolution and the 'Old Whigs', Trevor Colbourn's Lamp of Experience is indispensable:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3817&Itemid=28
For politics, besides the entire collection at constitution.org, we have specifically the two major works of John C. Calhoun (where are included there I think). There are several nice sites that cover the Anti-Federalists.
I've mentioned before Richard M. Weaver's Southern Tradition at Bay which is one of the few 20th century authors I can recommend.
A bit off-topic but not really are parallel discussions of English history. For a deconstruction of the English patriotic myth (part and parcel of Whiggery), Edwin Jones The English Nation:
http://www.amazon.com/English-Nation-Edwin-Jones/dp/0750925191
J.C.D. Clarke's Revisionist works, esp. both editions of English Society, are key. Among English authors, Samuel Johnson and Burke (in reference to the American Revolution), Disraeli, Gladstone (including his speech supporting the Confederacy) are well-known from Neo-Con or Near-Con writers like Russell Kirk. However, they write from a very Northern perspective, as a rule.
Tucker's Blackstone, though about Law, has an extensive appendix on constitutional issues from a Virginian perspective, and that from the days when the rulings of the Jay and Marshall courts were not yet set in stone, blood, and iron.
http://www.constitution.org/tb/tb-0000.htm
Key: http://www.constitution.org/tb/t1e.htm (Appendix: Note E)
I quote Prof. Ziobro of Holy Cross's site, Classical America, and his online book, repeatedly, in the Classics vs. Romantic context:
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/CA97SYLL.html
Thomas Jefferson and the Classics:
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/JeffersonandClassics.html
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/LtinEAmHP.htm
For Anglicanism, besides the Loyalist and Tory sources at constitution.org, the history of Episcopalian (Cavalier, Non-Juror) dissent in Scotland is important, and one of the best sources is:
http://www.episcopalhistory.org.uk/01tullochgorum.html
'Virginia Churchmanship' of the Anglican, gentry type, is essential background, and who can underestimate 'The Parson's Cause', in which Patrick Henry persecuted the tutor of (get this) future presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. All I can say is the Maury was one really good teacher.
Finally, we have the large 'DocSouth' collection, which has very interesting points all its own:
Southern Authors, of the first rank, but often suppressed as un-PC:
Thomas Nelson Page: http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/pageolevir/bio.html
John Pendleton Kennedy, esp. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendancy
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/kennedyhorseshoe/menu.html
Poet Henry Timrod: http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/timrod/menu.html
Esp. his "Ethnogenesis" http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/timrod/timrod.html#timr100
and "Carolina" http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/timrod/timrod.html#timr80
There are many, many others in the author index:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/author/
And the School Textbook collection has an interest all its own:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/global/result.html?term=Education%20--%20Confederate%20States%20of%20America.
A bit of a hodge-podge, but it will save me trouble linking. :)