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Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South
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Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South

by Grady McWhiney. 292 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Grady McWhiney

Publisher:

   University of Alabama Press

Place of Publication:

  Tuscaloosa, AL  

Publication Year:

  1989
Subjects:   Southern States--Civilization--Celtic Influences, Southern States--Civilization--1775-1865
Table of contents
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS / xi
PREFACE / xiii
PROLOGUE / xxi
I Settlement 1
II Heritage 23
III Herding 51
IV Hospitality 80
V Pleasures 105
VI Violence 146
VII Morals 171
VIII Education 193
IX Progress 218
X Worth 245
XI Collision 268
APPENDIX / 273
INDEX / 278
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