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Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-09 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. Whether pursuers of fo
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-01 - Publisher: JHU Press
This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post–Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late n
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-29 - Publisher: JHU Press
Giltner's thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen's recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspect
Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
By the early 1900s, virtually all of the rich plantation land in the Red Hills between Thomasville, Georgia, and Tallahassee, Florida, had been converted to qua
Language: en
Pages: 234
Pages: 234
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Regardless of color or class, men in the Old South hunted; the meat, hides, and furs they brought home reinforced the hunters' claims to patriarchal authority a