Connectedness and kinship: the continuing search for usable evidence in social history.(Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier)(Book review)

From: Historical Methods | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Plakans, Andrejs | Copyright information

Carolyn Earle Billingsley. Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

The methodological and theoretical interests of Historical Methods are the reason why a specialist in the history of Eastern European peasant societies has been asked to review a book on the antebellum American South. Carolyn Billingsley's work will be of interest to historians of the South, of course, but little wil...

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