Killings-Pa
The State Line Country of this book is a rugged area of small farms on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Historically the area has had a homicide rate more than ten times the national average. In this gripping and penetrating study of violence and death in the State Line Country, Lynwood Montell examines the local historical and social conditions, as well as the prevailing attitudes and values, that gave rise and support to rowdy behavior and homicidal acts from the Civil War to the 1930s. The area fostered, he thinks, a culture of violence. Drawing from vivid oral accounts, which he recorded from present-day residents, Montell describes more t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8131-0824-7
- EAN: 9780813108247
- Produktnummer: 1547617
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.2 cm 292 g
- Gewicht: 292
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