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Race, war, and remembrance in the Appalachian South /

John C. Inscoe is a luminary in the field of Appalachian studies. He has spent much of his career exploring the social, economic, and political significance of slavery and race in the mountain South as well as the complex nature of the region's Civil War loyalties and the brutal guerrilla warfa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Inscoe, John C., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race and racism in nineteenth-century Appalachia : myths, realities, and ambiguities
  • Between bondage and freedom : confronting the variables of Appalachian slavery and slaveholding
  • Olmsted in Appalachia : a Connecticut Yankee encounters slavery in the southern highlands, 1854
  • Mountain masters as Confederate opportunists : the slave trade in western North Carolina, 1861-1865
  • The secession crisis and regional self-image : the contrasting cases of western North Carolina and east Tennessee
  • Highland households divided : familial deceptions, diversions, and divisions in southern Appalachia's inner civil war / with Gordon B. McKinney
  • Coping in Confederate Appalachia : portrait of a mountain woman and her community at war
  • "Moving through deserter country" : fugitive accounts of southern Appalachia's inner civil war
  • "Talking heroines" : elite mountain women as chroniclers of Stoneman's Raid, April 1865
  • The racial "innocence" of Appalachia : William Faulkner and the mountain South
  • A fugitive slave in frontier Appalachia : the journey of August King on film
  • "A northern wedge thrust into the heart of the Confederacy" : explaining Civil War loyalties in the age of Appalachian discovery, 1900-1921
  • Unionists in the attic : the Shelton Laurel Massacre dramatized
  • Appalachian Odysseus : love, war, and best-sellerdom in the Blue Ridge
  • Guerrilla war and remembrance : reconstructing a father's murder and a community's civil war
  • Race and remembrance in West Virginia : John Henry for a postmodernist age
  • In defense of Appalachia on film : Hollywood, history, and the highland South.