BiblioVault - Books by Wright, Louis B.

Colonial Search For A Southern Eden

Louis B. Wright

University of Alabama Press, 2008

European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World

Louis Booker Wright was a graduate of Wofford College, and was at various times a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a Benjamin Franklin Medalist, and he held honorary degrees from, among others, Princeton, Tulane, and California State University-Fulerton. He was the author of a number of books, including The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763, Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: the Adventurous Lives of the Renaissance Explorers, Culture on the Moving Frontier, and The Dream of Prosperity in Colonial America. At the time of the preparation of this work he was Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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The Elizabethans' America

A Collection of Early Reports by Englishmen on the New World

Louis B. Wright

Harvard University Press

Myth and Southern History, Volume 1

The Old South

Edited by Patrick Gerster and Nicholas Cords

University of Illinois Press, 1989

Many historical myths are actually false yet psychologically true. The contributors to this volume see myth and reality as complementary elements in the historical record. Myth and Southern History is as much a commentary on southern historiography as it is on the viability of myth in the historical process. Volume 2: The New South offers new perspectives on the North's role in southern mythology, the so-called Savage South, twentieth-century black and white southern women, and the "changes" that distinguish the late twentieth-century South from that of the Civil War era.

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The Prose Works of William Byrd of Westover

Narratives of a Colonial Virginian

William Byrd

Harvard University Press