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Southern farmers and their stories : memory and meaning in oral history /
Examining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, Melissa Walker explores how farmers recall their agrarian past and the lessons that they draw from that past. These farmers understood that their way of life was passing--indeed many of them would be pu...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2006.
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| Series: | New directions in southern history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Examining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, Melissa Walker explores how farmers recall their agrarian past and the lessons that they draw from that past. These farmers understood that their way of life was passing--indeed many of them would be pushed off the land forever--and so they told stories to preserve a sense that their way of life mattered. Landowners and sharecroppers; native-born farmers and immigrants, African Americans and whites; and men and women narrate the compelling story of how the rural South was modernized in the twentie. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813171504 9780813171500 9780813137414 0813137411 9780813134789 0813134781 |