Confessions of Edward Isham : A Poor White Life of the Old South by Scott P. Cul

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9780820320731
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820320730
ISBN-13
9780820320731
eBay Product ID (ePID)
664091

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
216 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Confessions of Edward Isham : a Poor White Life of the Old South
Subject
Murder / General, Sociology / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Poverty & Homelessness, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
1998
Features
New Edition
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Scott P. Culclasure
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
820
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
98-004359
Reviews
" The Confessions of Edward Isham , a cleverly conceived and adeptly executed essay collection, is a rich addition to our ever-growing understanding of that shadowy world of southern poor whites. The range of insights and meanings these scholars have teased out of the life of Edward Isham, known only through his brief biographical statement, makes this book extraordinary. It is an example of how much skillful historians can make of single lives and even single incidents, particularly given the dramatic and even chilling story they focus upon here."--John C. Inscoe, author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina, "Takes the remarkable autobiography of a confessed murderer and examines it from a variety of perspectives. Each of the essays that follow the Isham autobiography contributes to the mosaic of poor white life in the South. The violence that characterized Isham's life is astonishing. Many previous scholars have commented on the violence in the Old South, but rarely has one been able to see it through the lens of a single, brutish life."--Jeffrey J. Crow, director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, "The Confessions of Edward Isham, a cleverly conceived and adeptly executed essay collection, is a rich addition to our ever-growing understanding of that shadowy world of southern poor whites. The range of insights and meanings these scholars have teased out of the life of Edward Isham, known only through his brief biographical statement, makes this book extraordinary. It is an example of how much skillful historians can make of single lives and even single incidents, particularly given the dramatic and even chilling story they focus upon here."--John C. Inscoe, author ofMountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
[B]
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
This compelling collection of original documents and current scholarship sheds considerable light on the underside of the poor white experience in the antebellum South. In 1859, the Georgian Edward Isham, convicted in North Carolina of murdering a Piedmont farmer, dictated his life story to his court-appointed defense attorney. The autobiography left behind provides a rare look at the world of poor whites from the viewpoint of a member of this most elusive of the Old South's social groups. A selection of essays accompanying the autobiography examines the meaning of the document from a variety of perspectives: crime, frontier life, gender relations, labor, and the genre of nineteenth-century confessional literature., This compelling collection of original documents sheds considerable light on the underside of the poor white experience in the antebellum South. Essays accompanying the autobiography examine the document from a variety of perspectives: crime, frontier life, gender relations, labor, and the genre of nineteenth-century confessional literature.
LC Classification Number
F213.I85 1998

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