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Cracker Culture
Grady McWhiney
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Description for Cracker Culture
Paperback. "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. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term 'Cracker' initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both, however, were Southerners. The author insists that Southerners and Northerners were never alike. American colonists who settled south and west ... Read more
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. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term 'Cracker' initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both, however, were Southerners. The author insists that Southerners and Northerners were never alike. American colonists who settled south and west ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817304584
SKU
V9780817304584
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99-1
About Grady McWhiney
Grady McWhiney (1928-2006) was a noted historian of the American South and of the Civil War. He taught at a number of institutions, notably at The University of Alabama and Texas Christian University. Among his many booklength works are Attack and Die: Civil War Tactics and the Southern Heritage and Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat (vol. 1), both available from ... Read more
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