Death and the American South
- ISBN-10
- 1107084202
- ISBN-13
- 9781107084209
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Lorri Glover, Craig Thompson Friend
Description
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.
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