Bøger af James Seay Brown

Bestselling reflections on fifty years of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama by an Alabama writers and scholar

Interspersed throughout with insights drawn from James Seay Brown's academic career and his work with a variety of Birmingham-area community organizations, this book traces a very personal, historically informed, and idiosyncratic profile of a region in transition in the mid to late twentieth century.

Argues that the big story of the last 500 years is that with unprecedented new power, the West explored and then came to dominate the non-western world; and then the rest of the world fought back to win its independence, though in part by borrowing some of that new western power.