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Informationen zum Autor Craig Thompson Friend is Professor of History and Director of Public History at North Carolina State University. Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair in the Department of History at St Louis University, Missouri. Klappentext This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Zusammenfassung Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays! featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Death and the American South: an introduction Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover; 1. Mutilated bodies, living specters: scalpings and beheadings in the early South Craig Thompson Friend; 2. The usable death: evangelicals, Anglicans, and the politics of dying in the late colonial low country Peter N. Moore; 3. When 'history becomes fable instead of fact': the deaths and resurrections of Virginia's leading revolutionaries Lorri Glover; 4. American mourning: catastrophe, public grief, and the making of civic identity in the early national South Jewel L. Spangler; 5. To claim one's own: death and the body in the daily politics of antebellum slavery Jamie Warren; 6. Nativists and strangers: yellow fever and immigrant mortality in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina Jeff Strickland; 7. 'Cumberer of the earth': suffering and suicide among the faithful in the Civil War South Diane Miller Sommerville; 8. The 'translation' of Lundy Harris: interpreting death out of the confusion of sexuality, violence, and religion in the New South Donald G. Mathews; 9. 'He's only away': condolence literature and the emergence of a modern South Kristine M. McCusker; 10. 'A monument to Judge Lynch': racial violence, symbolic death, and black resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi Jason Morgan Ward; 11. Reframing the Indian dead: removal-era Cherokee graves and the changing landscape of Southern memory Andrew Denson....
