Blood in the hills : a history of violence in Appalachia / edited by Bruce E. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stewart, Bruce E.

Series:

New directions in southern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Appalachian Region--History.

Violence.

Social conditions.

History.

Appalachian Region--Social conditions.

Appalachian Region.

Appalachian Region--History.

Physical Description:

x, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2012]

Contents:

Introduction / Bruce E. Stewart

Violence, statecraft, and statehood in the early republic : the state of Franklin, 1784-1788 / Kevin T. Barksdale

"Devoted to hardships, danger, and devastation" : the landscape of Indian and white violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1753-1800 / Kathryn Shively Meier

"Our mad young men" : authority and violence in Cherokee country / Tyler Boulware

The "ferocious character" of antebellum Georgia's gold country : frontier lawlessness and violence in fact and fiction / John C. Inscoe

"A possession, or an absence of ears" : the shape of violence in travel narratives about the mountain South, 1779-1835 / Katherine E. Ledford

Violence against slaves as a catalyst in changing attitudes toward slavery : an 1857 case study in east Tennessee / Durwood Dunn

"These big-boned, semi-barbarian people" : moonshining and the myth of violent Appalachia, 1870-1900 / Bruce E.Stewart

"Deep in the shades of ill-starred Georgia's wood" : the murder of Elder Joseph Standing in late-nineteenth-century Appalachian Georgia / Mary Ella Engel

Race and violence in urbanizing Appalachia : the Roanoke riot of 1893 / Rand Dotson

Assassins and feudists : politics and death in the Bluegrass and mountains of Kentucky / T.R.C. Hutton

"A hard-bitten lot" : nonstrike violence in the early southern West Virginia smokeless coalfields, 1880-1910 / Paul H. Rakes and Kenneth R. Bailey

"The largest manhunt in western North Carolina's history" : the story of Broadus Miller / Kevin W. Young

The murder of Thomas Price : image, identity, and violence in western North Carolina / Richard D. Starnes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813134277

0813134277

9780813134314

0813134315

OCLC:

724674678