Bathed in blood : hunting and mastery in the Old South / Nicolas W. Proctor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proctor, Nicolas W., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting--Philosophy--Southern States--History.

Hunting.

Hunting--Psychological aspects--Southern States--History.

Hunting--Social aspects--Southern States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Bathed in Blood

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, VA : University Press of Virginia, 2002.

Summary:

Proctor forges a new understanding of the significance of hunting in the antebellum South through his analyses of a wealth of magazine articles and private papers, diaries, and correspondence.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Game, Landscape, and the Law

Chapter 2: Hunters at Home and in the Field

Chapter 3: Hunting and the Masculine Ideal

Chapter 4: Finding Peers: The Criteria of Exclusion

Chapter 5: The Community of the Hunt

Chapter 6: Slavery, Paternalism, and the Hunt

Chapter 7: Slave Perceptions of the Hunt

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (JSTOR, viewed September 10, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-215).

ISBN:

9781283579230

1283579235

9780813921747

0813921740