Blood in the hills : a history of violence in Appalachia /

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"To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stewart, Bruce E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2012.
Colección:New directions in southern history.
Temas:
Violence > Appalachian Region > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Social conditions
Violence
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region > History.
Appalachian Region
Multi-User
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bruce E. Stewart
  • Violence, statecraft, and statehood in the early republic : the state of Franklin, 1784-1788 / Kevin T. Barksdale
  • "Devoted to hardships, danger, and devastation" : the landscape of Indian and white violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1753-1800 / Kathryn Shively Meier
  • "Our mad young men" : authority and violence in Cherokee country / Tyler Boulware
  • The "ferocious character" of antebellum Georgia's gold country : frontier lawlessness and violence in fact and fiction / John C. Inscoe
  • "A possession, or an absence of ears" : the shape of violence in travel narratives about the mountain South, 1779-1835 / Katherine E. Ledford
  • Violence against slaves as a catalyst in changing attitudes toward slavery : an 1857 case study in east Tennessee / Durwood Dunn
  • "These big-boned, semi-barbarian people" : moonshining and the myth of violent Appalachia, 1870-1900 / Bruce E. Stewart
  • "Deep in the shades of ill-starred Georgia's wood" : the murder of Elder Joseph Standing in late-nineteenth-century Appalachian Georgia / Mary Ella Engel
  • Race and violence in urbanizing Appalachia : the Roanoke riot of 1893 / Rand Dotson
  • Assassins and feudists : politics and death in the Bluegrass and mountains of Kentucky / T.R.C. Hutton
  • "A hard-bitten lot" : nonstrike violence in the early southern West Virginia smokeless coalfields, 1880-1910 / Paul H. Rakes and Kenneth R. Bailey
  • "The largest manhunt in western North Carolina's history" : the story of Broadus Miller / Kevin W. Young
  • The murder of Thomas Price : image, identity, and violence in western North Carolina / Richard D. Starnes.

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