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Bathed in blood : hunting and mastery in the Old South /

"A widely recognized symbol, both at the time and in legend, of the antebellum slaveholding class's aristocratic pretensions, the hunt is obviously deserving of study. In Bathed in Blood, however, Nicolas Proctor makes an excellent case for the cultural and social significance of hunting f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Proctor, Nicolas W., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville, VA : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Game, Landscape, and the Law
  • 2. Hunters at Home and in the Field
  • 3. Hunting and the Masculine Ideal
  • 4. Finding Peers: The Criteria of Exclusion
  • 5. Community of the Hunt
  • 6. Slavery, Paternalism, and the Hunt
  • 7. Slave Perceptions of the Hunt.