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Moments of despair suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina
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Title
Moments of despair [electronic resource] : suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina / David Silkenat.
ISBN
1469603357
9781469603353
0807834602 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807834602 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 296 p. :) ill. ;
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Complete Supplement.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 US Regional Studies, South Supplement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 11, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-289) and index.
Contents
By his own hand : suicide
Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south
The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War
The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought
To loosen the bands of society : divorce
The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white
Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce
The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south
Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt
Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina
Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War
What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south
Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.
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