The Hatfield-Mc Coy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore and legend. Ironically, the extraordinary endurance of the myth that has grown up around the Hatfields and Mc Coys has obscured the consideration of the feud as a serious historical event. In this study, Altina Waller tells the real story of the Hatfields and Mc Coys and the Tug Valley of West Virginia and Kentucky, placing the feud in the context of community and regional change in the era of industrialization.
Waller argues that the legendary feud was not an outgrowth of an inherently violent mountain culture but rather one manifestation of a contest for social and economic control between local people and outside industrial capitalists — the Hatfields were defending community autonomy while the Mc Coys were allied with the forces of industrial capitalism. Profiling the colorful feudists ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield, ‘Old Ranel’ Mc Coy, ‘Bad’ Frank Phillips, and the ill-fated lovers Roseanna Mc Coy and Johnse Hatfield, Waller illustrates how Appalachians both shaped and responded to the new economic and social order.
Waller argues that the legendary feud was not an outgrowth of an inherently violent mountain culture but rather one manifestation of a contest for social and economic control between local people and outside industrial capitalists — the Hatfields were defending community autonomy while the Mc Coys were allied with the forces of industrial capitalism. Profiling the colorful feudists ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield, ‘Old Ranel’ Mc Coy, ‘Bad’ Frank Phillips, and the ill-fated lovers Roseanna Mc Coy and Johnse Hatfield, Waller illustrates how Appalachians both shaped and responded to the new economic and social order.
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Altina L. Waller, professor emerita of history at the University of Connecticut, is author of Reverend Beecher and Mrs. Tilton: Sex and Class in Victorian America.قم بشراء هذا الكتاب الإلكتروني واحصل على كتاب آخر مجانًا!
لغة الإنجليزية ● شكل EPUB ● صفحات 332 ● ISBN 9781469609713 ● حجم الملف 4.1 MB ● الناشر The University of North Carolina Press ● مدينة Chapel Hill ● بلد US ● نشرت 2012 ● للتحميل 24 الشهور ● دقة EUR ● هوية شخصية 5509481 ● حماية النسخ Adobe DRM
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