Moments of despair
Subtitle: suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina
By: David Silkenat
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780807834602
Subjects: Suicide; Divorce; Debt; Politics and government; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: By his own hand : suicide; title: Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south; title: The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War; title: The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought; title: To loosen the bands of society : divorce; title: The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white; title: Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce; title: The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south; title: Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt; title: Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina; title: Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War; title: What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south; title: Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.