ISBN: 9780195118643

Soldiers left the army without permission to check on their families and farms. Publisher Oxford University Press Inc. Health & Beauty. Format Hardcover. Author William Blair. … Mehr…

Soldiers left the army without permission to check on their families and farms. Publisher Oxford University Press Inc. Health & Beauty. Format Hardcover. Author William Blair. Virginia's Private War by William Blair Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description A study of the home front in the Confederacy which challenges and effectively overturns the dominant assumption that internal stresses and conflicts, particularly along lines of class and race, undermined the Confederacy. Publisher Description This book tells the story of how Confederate civilians in the Old Dominion struggled to feed not only their stomachs but also their souls. Although demonstrating the ways in which the war created many problems within southern communities, Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 does not support scholars who claim that internal dissent caused the Confederacy's downfall. Instead, it offers a study of the Virginia home frontthat depicts how the Union army's continued pressure created destruction, hardship, and shortages that left the Confederate public spent and demoralized with the surrender of the army under Robert E.Lee.This book, however, does not portray the population as uniformly united in a Lost Cause. Virginians complained a great deal about the management of the war. Letters to the governor and to the Confederate secretary of war demonstrate how dissent escalated to dangerous proportions by the spring and summer of 1863. Women rioted in Richmond for food. Soldiers left the army without permission to check on their families and farms. Various groups vented their hatred onVirginias rich men of draft age who stayed out of the army by purchasing substitutes. Such complaints, ironically, may have prolonged the war, for some of the Confederacy's leaders responded by forcing thewealthy to shoulder more of the burden for prosecuting the war. Substitution ended, and the men who stayed home became government growers who distributed goods at reduced cost to the poor. But, as the case is made in Virginias Private War, none of these efforts could finally overcome an enemy whose unrelenting pressure strained the resources of Rebel Virginians to the breaking point.Arguing that the state of Virginia both waged and witnessed a "rich man's fight"that has until now been downplayed or misunderstood by many if not most of our Civil War scholars, William Blair provides in these pages a detailed portrait of this conflict that is bold, original, andconvincing. He draws from the microcosm of Virginia several telling conclusions about the Confederacy's rise, demise, and identity, and his study will therefore appeal to anyone with a taste for Civil War history--and Virginia's unique place in that history, especially. Author Biography Formerly Assistant Professor of United States History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, William Blair is now Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also the Director of the Civil War Era Institute. He won the 1996 Allan Nevins Prize (given by the American Society of Historians for the best American History dissertation) and served as the co-editor of A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters ofJohn White Geary (1995). Details ISBN 0195118642 ISBN-13 9780195118643 Title Virginia's Private War Author William Blair Format Hardcover Year 1998 Pages 216 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137021130; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. 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1998, ISBN: 9780195118643

Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865, Buch, Hardcover, William Blair's Virginia's Private War is a close study of the home front in the Confederacy and a significant contri… Mehr…

Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865, Buch, Hardcover, William Blair's Virginia's Private War is a close study of the home front in the Confederacy and a significant contribution to our understanding of the Confederate defeat. Blair challenges and effectively overturns the dominant assumption that internal stresses and conflicts, particularly along lines of class and race, undermined the Confederacy. Rather, he shows that for most of the South the centripetal forces of Confederate nationalism and defence of home and hearth against an invading enemy were more powerful. Internal problems, including dissent, wracked the state of Virginia, yet these private wars actually helped prolong the conflict as they forced authorities to turn the war into more of a rich man's fight. [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Seiten: 216, Oxford University Press Inc, 1998<