John Shelton: 10 books
Reading Southern History
Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of southern history and culture, furthering our understanding of the best historical work produced on the region.
Historian Glenn Feldman gathers together a group of essays that examine the efforts...
Dixie Bohemia
A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling,...
Barbecue
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
John Shelton Reed's Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held barbecues to mark homecomings, reunions, and political campaigns; today barbecue signifies celebration as much as ever. In a lively and amusing style, Reed traces...
Mixing It Up
A South-Watcher's Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Too often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range of unique places and cultures, each with its own history and evolving identity. John Shelton Reed’s Mixing It Up is a medley of writings that examine how ideas...
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Social and political history of the modern South.
This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social...
Holy Smoke
The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Now available for the first time in paperback, Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature slow-food dish. A...
by John Shelton, Ron LaJeunesse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Addicts in Wonderland is a true story about cocaine addiction. It is framed around the classic tale Alice in Wonderland, with one significant difference. The people and events are real; there is no fiction. The story also fits no stereotype about addiction or addicts.
The reader will be shaken...
Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I
Sacred Knowledge to Nourish the Mentality, Support Spiritual Growth, Learning the Light, and Progressing to Become a Master Lover While Embracing Desire
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Awakening Kings and Princes (AWKP) is self-help and spiritual growth book on systematic knowledge of information on discovering the awakening of an individuals in-depth personage, addressing the prowess of the mentality to awakening emunah (faith, truth, stability, fidelity) within ourselves. A way...
From Nighthawk to Spitfire
The Aircraft of R.J. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
R. J. Mitchell was virtually self-taught; surprisingly, almost all his other aircraft 24 aircraft were slow-flying seaplanes. How a lad from the land-locked Midlands, apprenticed to a locomotive works, came to be responsible for the Spitfire is a great tale in itself. This detailed book tells us how...
Sustainability Unpacked
Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations. This ground-breaking book examines and decodes these elements, exploring how a range of countries make decisions regarding their energy and bio-resource consumption and procurement. The authors consider how these...