LEADER 03380nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910829188703321 005 20241218120105.0 010 $a9786613232694 010 $a9780813134789 010 $a0813134781 010 $a9781283232692 010 $a1283232693 010 $a9780813171500 010 $a0813171504 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467665 035 $a(EBL)792178 035 $a(OCoLC)77011124 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000249023 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249023 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10227514 035 $a(PQKB)11612328 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038470 035 $a(OCoLC)607769347 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13772 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL792178 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495355 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL323269 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC792178 035 $a(DcWaBHL)40144 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467665 100 $a20060327d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSouthern farmers and their stories $ememory and meaning in oral history /$fMelissa Walker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLexington, Ky. $cUniversity Press of Kentucky$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (339 p.) 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aNew directions in southern history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780813137414 311 08$a0813137411 311 08$a9780813124094 311 08$a0813124093 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-318) and index. 327 $aThree 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. 330 $aExamining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, Melissa Walker explores how farmers recall their agrarian past and the lessons that they draw from that past. These farmers understood that their way of life was passing--indeed many of them would be pushed off the land forever--and so they told stories to preserve a sense that their way of life mattered. Landowners and sharecroppers; native-born farmers and immigrants, African Americans and whites; and men and women narrate the compelling story of how the rural South was modernized in the twen 410 0$aNew directions in southern history. 606 $aFarm life$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century$xHistoriography 606 $aFarmers$zSouthern States$vInterviews 606 $aOral history 606 $aMemory$xSocial aspects$zSouthern States 606 $aInterviews$zSouthern States 607 $aSouthern States$xSocial life and customs$y20th century$xHistoriography 607 $aSouthern States$xRural conditions$xHistoriography 607 $aSouthern States$vBiography 615 0$aFarm life$xHistory$xHistoriography. 615 0$aFarmers 615 0$aOral history. 615 0$aMemory$xSocial aspects 615 0$aInterviews 676 $a975/.03072 700 $aWalker$b Melissa$f1962-$0856167 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829188703321 996 $aSouthern farmers and their stories$93983093 997 $aUNINA