The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation

McDonald, Forrest; McWhiney, Grady

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“…22 Results of regressions without controls are identical when run on the subset of non-missing observations. 23 According to McDonald and McWhiney (1975), the majority of the Scots-Irish neither owned slaves nor did they aspire to, given that herding was rather profitable. The correlation between Scots or Scots-Irish settlements and slave numbers at the county level is, indeed, negative and significant at the 10% level (-0.12).…”

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A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South

Grosjean¹

2011

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According to the culture of honor hypothesis, the high prevalence of homicide in the US South originates from the settlement of the region by herders from the fringes of Britain in the late 18 th century. Combining contemporary homicide data with historical Census data, this paper confirms that Scot or Scots-Irish settlements are associated with higher homicide today, but only in the South. Using different proxies for institutional quality, I find that the Scots-Irish culture of honor only persisted where institutional quality was low. The interpretation is that the culture of honor, a private justice system, persisted in the South as an adaptive behavior to weak institutions. The effect is more pronounced where herding was more prevalent. It is confined to white offenders and to specific homicides that seem to aim at the defense of one's reputation. By contrast, the culture of honor deters violent crime against women. The culture of honor was transmitted to subsequent generations, but, again, only where formal institutions were weak. Evidence also suggests that the Scots-Irish culture of honor continues to adapt: it has been slowly fading over time.

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A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South

Grosjean¹

2011

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“…In the antinomian tradition, egalitarian family values have required the Moreland and Terrar 161 © Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2008 Henry clay and John Quincy Adams as one of "King Biddle's henchmen." See Foner (1975,24).…”

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“…In analyzing the aping of the English gentry by the merchants and their prejudice against laboring people, some studies have more muddled than clarified the picture by equating the beliefs of working people with those of the gentlemen. Forrest mcDonald (1975,(149)(150); see also, Wright 1976, 106-109;Waterhouse 1989, 110) describes this problem as reflected in the scholarship of Ulrich B. Phillips:…”

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Liberation Theology Down on the Farm

Moreland¹,

Terrar²

2009

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The central concern of this article is family values taught in the religion of southern working-class people in the antebellum United States. It uses a representative South Carolina family and focuses on the values in three different contexts: religion, family and labor. In living out their lives, working people encountered both success and failure. Their history is compared with the present-day family value discussion, as conducted by scholars such as James Dobson.

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“…Some have gone so far as to argue that the long influence of human fire management renders the southeastern United States a cultural landscape (Fowler and Konopik 2007). Yet, such arguments have relied on romantic and vague narratives of hybrid Celtic and Native American burning practices that imply broad-scale, monolithic, and perhaps homogenous burning practices (Johnson and Hale 2000;McDonald and McWhiney 1975;McWhiney and McDonald 1985;Otto 1984Otto , 1986Pyne 1982).…”

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Wildland Arson as Clandestine Resource Management: A Space–Time Permutation Analysis and Classification of Informal Fire Management Regimes in Georgia, USA

Coughlan

2016

Environmental Management

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Forest managers are increasingly recognizing the value of disturbance-based land management techniques such as prescribed burning. Unauthorized, "arson" fires are common in the southeastern United States where a legacy of agrarian cultural heritage persists amidst an increasingly forest-dominated landscape. This paper reexamines unauthorized fire-setting in the state of Georgia, USA from a historical ecology perspective that aims to contribute to historically informed, disturbance-based land management. A space-time permutation analysis is employed to discriminate systematic, management-oriented unauthorized fires from more arbitrary or socially deviant fire-setting behaviors. This paper argues that statistically significant space-time clusters of unauthorized fire occurrence represent informal management regimes linked to the legacy of traditional land management practices. Recent scholarship has pointed out that traditional management has actively promoted sustainable resource use and, in some cases, enhanced biodiversity often through the use of fire. Despite broad-scale displacement of traditional management during the 20th century, informal management practices may locally circumvent more formal and regionally dominant management regimes. Space-time permutation analysis identified 29 statistically significant fire regimes for the state of Georgia. The identified regimes are classified by region and land cover type and their implications for historically informed disturbance-based resource management are discussed.

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The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation

Cited by 18 publications

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A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South

A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South

Liberation Theology Down on the Farm

Wildland Arson as Clandestine Resource Management: A Space–Time Permutation Analysis and Classification of Informal Fire Management Regimes in Georgia, USA

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