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Southern farmers and their stories [[electronic resource] ] : memory and meaning in oral history / / Melissa Walker



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Autore: Walker Melissa <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Southern farmers and their stories [[electronic resource] ] : memory and meaning in oral history / / Melissa Walker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
Disciplina: 975/.03072
Soggetto topico: Farm life - Southern States - History - 20th century - Historiography
Farmers - Southern States
Oral history
Memory - Social aspects - Southern States
Interviews - Southern States
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Social life and customs 20th century Historiography
Southern States Rural conditions Historiography
Southern States Biography
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-318) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 twen
Titolo autorizzato: Southern farmers and their stories  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8131-3478-1
1-283-23269-3
9786613232694
0-8131-7150-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452130103321
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Serie: New directions in southern history.