Death and the American South
"This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics from the seventeenth centu...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge studies on the American South. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44345902*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Death and the American South : an introduction / Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover
- Mutilated bodies, living specters : scalpings and beheadings in the early South / Craig Thompson Friend
- The usable death : evangelicals, Anglicans, and the politics of dying in the late colonial low country / Peter N. Moore
- When 'history becomes fable instead of fact' : the deaths and resurrections of Virginia's leading revolutionaries / Lorri Glover
- American mourning : catastrophe, public grief, and the making of civic identity in the early national South / Jewel L. Spangler
- To claim one's own : death and the body in the daily politics of antebellum slavery / Jamie Warren
- Nativists and strangers : yellow fever and immigrant mortality in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina / Jeff Strickland
- 'Cumberer of the earth' : suffering and suicide among the faithful in the Civil War South / Diane Miller Sommerville
- The 'translation' of Lundy Harris : interpreting death out of the confusion of sexuality, violence, and religion in the New South / Donald G. Mathews
- 'He's only away' : condolence literature and the emergence of a modern South / Kristine M. McCusker
- 'A monument to Judge Lynch' : racial violence, symbolic death, and black resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi / Jason Morgan Ward
- Reframing the Indian dead : removal-era Cherokee graves and the changing landscape of Southern memory / Andrew Denson.
