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Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier
Carolyn Billingsley
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Paperback. Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the American South. In this text she studies a southern family to show how the biological, legal and fictive kinship ties between him and some 7000 of his descendants helped shape the interior South. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 b&w photographs, 3 maps, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Trained as both a genealogist and a historian, Carolyn Earle Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the American South. In Communities of Kinship, she studies a southern family - that of Thomas Keesee Sr. - to show how the biological, legal, and fictive kinship ties between him and some seven thousand of his descendants and relatives helped to shape the growth of the interior South. Keesee, who was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, left there with his family when he was still a boy and subsequently lived in South Carolina, ... Read more
Trained as both a genealogist and a historian, Carolyn Earle Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the American South. In Communities of Kinship, she studies a southern family - that of Thomas Keesee Sr. - to show how the biological, legal, and fictive kinship ties between him and some seven thousand of his descendants and relatives helped to shape the growth of the interior South. Keesee, who was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, left there with his family when he was still a boy and subsequently lived in South Carolina, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820325101
SKU
V9780820325101
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