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Shadow and shelter : the swamp in southern culture /
To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy--African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites--the swam...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The swamp and antebellum southern identity
- The southern swamp in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond
- The swamp in the twentieth-century South
- The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification.