Death and the American South /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Other Authors:	Friend, Craig Thompson (Editor), Glover, Lorri, 1967- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:	Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subjects:	Death > Social aspects > United States. Mourning customs > United States. Bereavement > United States. Southern States > Social life and customs. Southern States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Death and the American South : an introduction / Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover
Mutilated bodies, living specters : scalpings and beheadings in the early South / Craig Thompson Friend
The usable death : evangelicals, Anglicans, and the politics of dying in the late colonial low country / Peter N. Moore
When 'history becomes fable instead of fact' : the deaths and resurrections of Virginia's leading revolutionaries / Lorri Glover
American mourning : catastrophe, public grief, and the making of civic identity in the early national South / Jewel L. Spangler
To claim one's own : death and the body in the daily politics of antebellum slavery / Jamie Warren
Nativists and strangers : yellow fever and immigrant mortality in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina / Jeff Strickland
'Cumberer of the earth' : suffering and suicide among the faithful in the Civil War South / Diane Miller Sommerville
The 'translation' of Lundy Harris : interpreting death out of the confusion of sexuality, violence, and religion in the New South / Donald G. Mathews
'He's only away' : condolence literature and the emergence of a modern South / Kristine M. McCusker
'A monument to Judge Lynch' : racial violence, symbolic death, and black resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi / Jason Morgan Ward
Reframing the Indian dead : removal-era Cherokee graves and the changing landscape of Southern memory / Andrew Denson.