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Mar 1, 2004 · The authors in this book state they want to analyze how the Georgia plain folk, “spawned by class resentment, were a major cause of Confederate defeat” (p. 194). They say that, though many issues such as kinship loyalties, self-interest, and old personal grudges divided the Southern people, class conflict was at the heart of unrest and even ...
- Jon L. Wakelyn
- 2004
Dec 26, 2002 · Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia Paperback – December 26, 2002 by David Williams (Author), Teresa C. Williams (Author), R. David Carlson (Author) & 0 more
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- William Harris Bragg
- $24.95
- University Press of Florida
This text aims to shed new light on how planter self-interest, government indifference, and the very nature of southern society produced a rising tide of dissent and disaffection among Georgia's plain folk during the Civil War.
" An outstanding study of the impact of the war on Georgia's yeoman class, Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War is generally readable and absorbing." "A solid contribution to the growing debate over the impact of homefront dissent on the Confederacy's failure." --Georgia Historical Quarterly
DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2005.0037 Corpus ID: 153525329; Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia (review) @article{Harris2002PlainFI, title={Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia (review)}, author={J. William Harris and David Williams and Teresa Crisp Williams and David Carlson}, journal={Civil War History}, year={2002}, volume={51 ...
Dec 26, 2002 · The author of numerous articles on Georgia history, the Old South, Appalachia, and the Civil War, Williams is the author of Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley and Johnny Reb's War: Battlefield and Homefront and the coauthor of Gold Fever: America's First Gold Rush and Plain Folk in a Rich Man ...
"A significant voice in a significant debate . . . full of marvelous quotes."--William W. Freehling, University of Kentucky "Shows clearly that the Solid South was not solid at all [and] demonstrates that the war encompassed much more than military strategy and tactics . . . it was fought at home as well as on the battlefield."--Wayne K. Durrill, University of Cincinnati This compelling and ...
