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suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina

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University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
296

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Subjects
Suicide, Divorce, Debt, Politics and government, History
Places
United States, North Carolina
Times
1861-1865, 19th century

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-289) and index.

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Chapel Hill

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.975609/034
Library of Congress
HV6548.U52 N87 2011

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Pagination
x, 296 p. :
Number of pages
296

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OL24881042M
Internet Archive
momentsdespairsu00silk
ISBN 10
0807834602
ISBN 13
9780807834602
LCCN
2010036102
OCLC/WorldCat
663102311

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