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Author McWhiney, Grady.

Title Cracker culture : Celtic ways in the Old South / Grady McWhiney ; with a prologue by Forrest McDonald
Published University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 290 pages) : illustrations
Contents Settlement -- Heritage -- Herding -- Hospitality -- Pleasures -- Violence -- Morals -- Education -- Progress -- Worth -- Collision
Summary Cracker culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Fundamental differences between Southerners and Northerners shaped the course of antebellum America; their conflict in the 1860s was nto so much brother against brother as culture against culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- State & Local.
Civilization
Civilization -- Celtic influences
SUBJECT Southern States -- Civilization -- Celtic influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004323
Southern States -- Civilization -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125636
Subject Southern States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585119724
9780585119724
9780817384524
0817384529
9780817303280
0817303286
9780817304584
0817304584
Other Titles Celtic ways in the Old South