Bloody Breathitt : Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South /

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This book uses the history of Breathitt County, Kentucky, to examine political violence in the United States and its interpretation in media and memory. Violence in Breathitt County, during and after the Civil War, usually reflected what was going on elsewhere in Kentucky and the American South. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hutton, T. R. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Violence.
Politics and government
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Violence > Kentucky > Breathitt County > History.
Kentucky > Breathitt County.
Breathitt County (Ky.) > Politics and government.
Breathitt County (Ky.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "The darkest and bloodiest of all the dark and bloody feud counties"
  • "To them, it was no-man's land" : before Breathitt was bloody
  • "Suppressing the late rebellion" : guerrilla fighting in a loyal state
  • "The war spirit was high" : scenes from an un-reconstructed county
  • "The civilizing and christianizing effects of material improvement and development"
  • Death of a feudal hero
  • "There has always been the bitterest political feeling in the county" : a courthouse ring in the age of assassination
  • "The feudal wars of Eastern Kentucky will no doubt be utilized in coming years by writers of fiction" : reading and writing bloody Breathitt
  • Epilogue.

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