Death and the American South / edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Lorri Glover.
Death and the American South / edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Lorri Glover.
Death and the American South / edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Lorri Glover.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Call Numbers
G 2015/1703
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Death and the American South : an introduction / Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover -- Mutilated bodies, living specters : scalpings and beheadings in the early South / Craig Thompson Friend -- The usable death : evangelicals, Anglicans, and the politics of dying in the late colonial low country...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
"This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics from the seventeenth century to the present, from the death traps that emerged during colon...
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Full title
Death and the American South / edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Lorri Glover.
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Cambridge studies on the American South.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/1703
Record Identifier
74VKO5Pwyjwd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO5Pwyjwd
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ISBN
1107084202 (hardback)
9781107084209 (hardback)
DDC
306.9
MMS ID
991022670159702626
