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Autore |
Wetherington Mark V |
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Titolo |
Plain folk's fight : the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia / / Mark V. Wetherington |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
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0-8078-7704-2 |
1-4696-0365-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (398 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Georgia |
Farmers - Georgia - Political activity - History - 19th century |
Artisans - Georgia - Political activity - History - 19th century |
Whites - Georgia - Social conditions - 19th century |
Whites - Georgia - Politics and government - 19th century |
Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
Georgia Rural conditions |
Georgia Social conditions 19th century |
Georgia Politics and government 1865-1950 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; PROLOGUE: Plain Folk; 1 On the Cotton Frontier; 2 Into a Revolution; 3 We Will Be Ready to March; 4 The Contest for My Country; 5 I Represent the War; 6 Not in the Flesh Again; 7 We Done Honor to Ourselves; 8 The Land Is Full of Poverty and Misery; 9 We Lift Our Hat to the Wire Grass Region; EPILOGUE: Losing the Peace; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white ""plain folk""--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the |
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