Moments of despair : suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- By his own hand : suicide
- Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south
- The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War
- The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought
- To loosen the bands of society : divorce
- The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white
- Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce
- The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south
- Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt
- Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina
- Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War
- What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south
- Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.