03283nam 2200805 a 450 991097049980332120241218120105.00-8131-9317-60-8131-3478-11-283-23269-397866132326940-8131-7150-4(CKB)1000000000467665(EBL)792178(OCoLC)77011124(SSID)ssj0000249023(PQKBManifestationID)11188578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249023(PQKBWorkID)10227514(PQKB)11612328(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038470(OCoLC)607769347(MdBmJHUP)muse13772(Au-PeEL)EBL792178(CaPaEBR)ebr10495355(CaONFJC)MIL323269(DcWaBHL)40144(Perlego)872921(MiAaPQ)EBC792178(EXLCZ)99100000000046766520060327d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe southern farmers'1st ed.Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentuckyc20061 online resource (339 p.)1 online resourceNew directions in southern historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8131-3741-1 0-8131-2409-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-318) and index.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.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 twenNew directions in southern history.Farm lifeSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryHistoriographyFarmersSouthern StatesInterviewsOral historyMemorySocial aspectsSouthern StatesInterviewsSouthern StatesSouthern StatesSocial life and customs20th centuryHistoriographySouthern StatesRural conditionsHistoriographySouthern StatesBiographyHandbooks, manuals, etcFarm lifeHistoryHistoriography.FarmersOral history.MemorySocial aspectsInterviews975/.03072Walker Melissa1962-856167DLCBOOK9910970499803321The southern farmers4448590UNINA