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UNINA9910777869903321 |
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Autore |
Wilson Anthony <1975-> |
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Titolo |
Shadow and shelter [[electronic resource] ] : the swamp in southern culture / / Anthony Wilson |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-91723-4 |
9786612917233 |
1-60473-069-2 |
1-4294-6057-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Group identity - Southern States |
Swamps - Social aspects - Southern States |
Swamps in literature |
American literature - Southern States - History and criticism |
Swamps - Southern States - History |
Swamp ecology - Southern States |
Southern States Civilization |
Southern States In literature |
Southern States Environmental conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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 (p. 194-203) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The swamp and antebellum southern identity -- The southern swamp in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond -- The swamp in the twentieth-century South -- The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy--African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites--the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture. Shadow and Shelter: |
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