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1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 324 pages)
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0813134781
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0813124093
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0813171504
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0813137411
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9780813134789
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9780813124094
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9780813171500
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9780813137414
Serie:
New directions in southern history
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
Three southern farmers tell their stories -- Rural Southerners and the community of memory -- Memory and the nature of transformation -- Memory and the meaning of change -- The present shapes stories about the past
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-318) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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ISBN 0813124093
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813124094
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Walker, Melissa, 1962- Southern farmers and their stories Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006
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Englisch
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