Plain folk's fight : the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia / / Mark V. Wetherington
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 975.8/03 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest.<BR><BR>Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the popula |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Plain folk's fight |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-7704-2 |
| 1-4696-0365-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824868303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Civil War America.