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UNINA9910777898403321 |
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Autore |
Walker Melissa <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Southern farmers and their stories [[electronic resource] ] : memory and meaning in oral history / / Melissa Walker |
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Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-3478-1 |
1-283-23269-3 |
9786613232694 |
0-8131-7150-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (339 p.) |
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Collana |
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New directions in southern history |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Farm life - Southern States - History - 20th century - Historiography |
Farmers - Southern States |
Oral history |
Memory - Social aspects - Southern States |
Interviews - Southern States |
Southern States Social life and customs 20th century Historiography |
Southern States Rural conditions Historiography |
Southern States Biography |
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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. 281-318) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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