Format:
Online-Ressource (336 p.)
ISBN:
9780817303280
Content:
Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term “Cracker” initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both, however, were Southerners. The author insists that Southerners and Northerners were
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Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Prologue; I. Settlement; II. Heritage; III. Herding; IV. Hospitality; V. Pleasures; VI. Violence; VII. Morals; VIII. Education; IX. Progress; X. Worth; XI. Collision; Appendix; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817384524
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817303280
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cracker Culture : Celtic Ways in the Old South
Language:
English
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