Download or read book Plain Folk s Fight written by Mark V. Wetherington and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the population, feared black emancipation would allow former slaves to move from cotton plantations to subsistence areas like their piney woods communities. Thus, they favored secession, defended their way of life by fighting in the Confederate army, and kept the antebellum patriarchy intact in their home communities. Unable by late 1864 to sustain a two-front war in Virginia and at home, surviving veterans took their fight to the local political arena, where they used paramilitary tactics and ritual violence to defeat freedpeople and their white Republican allies, preserving a white patriarchy that relied on ex-Confederate officers for a new generation of leadership.
Download or read book Plain Folks written by Francis Cecil Whitehouse and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just Plain Folks written by Lorraine Johnson-Coleman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-06-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By returning to the cotton fields, tobacco barns, & humble dwellings of her ancestral home in the rural South, this author learned firsthand what is missing from the history books between the pages on slavery & present-day African-American culture. It is the experience of ordinary people who, on second glance, have led truly extraordinary lives. She developed an appreciation for their words, wit, & wisdom & has made it her life's work to pass along their experiences. In this collection of original short stories, she pays homage to these ordinary folks through lyrical tributes, many of which have aired or will air on National Public Radio. Beginning late this year, her own program, Just Plain Folks: Wisdom from the Front Porch, will air weekly on NPR. Like her radio segments, the stories in Just Plain Folks are meant both to entertain & to educate. Each story concludes with an author's note that places it in its proper cultural context.
Download or read book Plain Facts for Plain Folks Addressed to the Good Sense and Other Feelings of Englishmen Upon the Proposed Scheme for New Modeling the Constitution and Bringing Royality Into Disrepute written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics for Plain Folks written by James Armstrong and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the role of government in our lives; with the cultural arrogance of Manifest Destiny and with Cuba as "a case in point"; with the storms of war that have pelted humankind; and with the cussedness and promise of human beings. The book probes the place of religion in public life. Finally, it will come to a halt as readers consider politics as practiced in the places where they live.
Download or read book Letters From Egypt To Plain Folks At Home written by Mary Whately and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Whately's letters offer a fascinating insight into life in Egypt in 1879, and will prove to be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the people, customs, culture and climate of Egypt in this period. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Psychological Operations written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychological Operations by United States Department of the Army written by United States. . Department of the Army. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychological factors are an integral part of all battlefields. Each unit movement and everyconquest of terrain psychologically affect the battlefield participants and an audience of friendly, neutral, or hostile groups. The psychological effect of combat actions can be seen in theheightened morale of a successful unit or in the discouragement and fear of a defeated unit.Properly manipulated attitudes can modify the behavior and the combat effectiveness of thesoldier and the unit.This manual provides information and guidance for the conduct of psychological operations(PSYOP) in general, limited, and cold war. The doctrine, techniques, and procedures found hereinare applicable to conventional warfare, unconventional warfare (UW), and foreign internaldefense (FID) operations. This manual should be used in conjunction with other official manualsand publications that provide staff organization procedures and guidance for doctrine, fieldoperations, and maintenance of equipment
Download or read book Plain Folk of the South Revisited written by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Download or read book Plain Folk in a Rich Man s War written by David Williams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 engaging book sheds 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. The authors make extensive use of local newspapers, court records, manuscript collections, and other firsthand accounts to tell a story of latent class resentment that emerged full force under wartime pressures and undermined southern support for the Confederacy. More directly than any previous historians, the authors make clear the connections between the causes of class resentment and their impact. Planters produced far too much cotton and avoided the draft at will. Speculators hoarded scarce goods and brought on spiraling inflation. Government officials turned a blind eye to the infractions of the rich, and were often bribed to do so. Women left to go hungry took matters into their own hands, stealing livestock in rural areas and rioting for food in every major city in Georgia. The hardships of families back home weighed heavily on soldiers in the field, contributing to rampant desertion. Deserters banded together, sometimes with draft dodgers and blacks escaping enslavement, to defend themselves or to go on the offensive against Confederate authorities. Some whites even planned and participated in slave resistance, a joining of forces that previous historians have long dismissed as highly improbable. So violent did Georgia's inner civil war become that one resident commented, "We are fighting each other harder than we ever fought the enemy." This work stresses more forcefully than any before it that plain folk in the Deep South were far from united behind the Confederate war effort. That lack of unity, brought on largely by class resentment, helped to ensure that the Confederacy's cause would, in the end, be lost. David Williams is professor and acting chair of the Department of History at Valdosta State University.
Download or read book Half Life of a Zealot written by Swanee Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography by Swanee Hunt, daughter of the legendary oil magnate H. L. Hunt, Bill Clinton's Ambassador to Austria, and internationally renowned philanthropist.
Download or read book The Makers of the Sacred Harp written by David Warren Steel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition. David Waren Stel is an associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. Richard H. Hulan is an independent scholar of American folk hymnody.
Download or read book Empty Sleeves written by Brian Craig Miller and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War shattered both the flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Brian Craig Miller shows how the hospital emerged as the first arena where southerners faced the stark reality of what amputation would mean for men and women and their respective positions in southern society after the war.
Download or read book Our Own Worst Enemy as Protector of Ourselves written by Byron B. Renz and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes us through the persuasive process, particularly as it is used in terrorist persuasive settings and as it has been used in some of the major propaganda battles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Download or read book Preachers Patriots Plain Folks written by Charles Chauncey Wells and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the art and personabes buried in Boston's downtown burying grounds of King's Chapel, Granary, and Central along with information on Freemasonry, women and African Americans in Boston History.
Download or read book The People s Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plain Folk of the Old South written by Frank Lawrence Owsley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes—planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials—firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports—to accurately reconstruct the prewar South’s large and significant “yeoman farmer” middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as “snuffing the candle,” “driving the nail,” and the “gander pull.” A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.
