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UNINA9910453937603321 |
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Pollack David <1951-> |
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Caborn-Welborn [[electronic resource] ] : constructing a new society after the Angel Chiefdom collapse / / David Pollack |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Mississippian culture - Ohio River Valley |
Mississippian culture - Wabash River Valley |
Mississippian pottery - Ohio River Valley |
Mississippian pottery - Wabash River Valley |
Chiefdoms - Ohio River Valley |
Chiefdoms - Wabash River Valley |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Ohio River Valley |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Wabash River Valley |
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Ohio River Valley Antiquities |
Wabash River Valley Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-228) and index. |
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Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-A.D. 1400 Mississippian Regional Centers, Angel's Collapse, and Caborn-Welborn Developments in the Lower Ohio River Valley; 3. Ceramic Descriptions; 4. Site Types and Their Spatial Distribution; 5. Temporal Trends; 6. Cultural and Functional Ceramic Patterns; 7. Interpretations and Conclusions; References Cited; Index |
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An important case study of chiefdom collapse and societal reemergence. Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400?) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000?). Using ceramic and settlement data, David |
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Pollack examines the ways in which that new society reconstructed social, political, and economic relationships from the remnants of the Angel chiefdom. Unlike most instances of the demise of a complex socie |
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UNINA9910465532203321 |
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Maxwell Jerry H (Jerry Hollis), <1942-> |
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The perfect lion [[electronic resource] ] : the life and death of Confederate artillerist John Pelham / / Jerry H. Maxwell |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (439 p.) |
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Soldiers - Confederate States of America |
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United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Artillery operations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"The most adventuresome member of that adventurous group" -- "We are a class beyond the common ones" -- "Fear God and know no other fear" -- "Madness and fanaticism" -- "We predict for them a brilliant future" -- "War is not glorious" -- "An honour to be one of them" -- "Like a duck on a June bug" -- "We are going to whip the yankees like the mischief" -- "I have had my revenge out of Pope" -- "Who could not conquer with such troops as these" -- "The Lord of Hosts was plainly fighting on our side" -- "The Lord bless your dirty ragged souls" -- "Put on the war paint!" -- "An exile from his own land of Alabama" -- "Stuart has euchered us again" -- "Like some god of battle" -- "We have a magnificent position ..." -- "You men stand killing better than any I know!" -- "A system of irritation" -- "One could never forget him" -- "Such is the fortune of war" -- "I want Jimmie to be just like him". |
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The South has made much of J. E. B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, but |
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no individual has had a greater elevation to divine status than John Pelham, remembered as the "Gallant Pelham." An Alabama native, Pelham left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery commander in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee is reported to have said of him, "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!" Blond, blue-eyed, and handsome, Pelham's modest demeanor charmed his contemporaries, and he was famously attractive to women. He was killed in a |
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