Author: John Knox BettersworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Mississippi in the Confederacy: As seen in retrospect, edited by James W. Silver
Author: John Knox BettersworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Mind of the Master Class
Author: Elizabeth Fox-GenovesePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.
Mississippi in the Civil War
Author: Timothy B. SmithPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604734302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A full examination of a population's passion and defeat
Professional Journal of the United States Army
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
All Things Altered
Author: Marilyn Mayer CulpepperPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476603928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O'Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended. This book examines the problems that Southern women faced during the Reconstruction Era, in Part I as mothers, wives, daughters or sisters of men burdened with financial difficulties and the radical Republican regime, and in Part II with specific illustrations of their tribulations through the letters and diaries of five different women. A lonely widow with young children, Sally Randle Perry is struggling to get her life back together, following the death of her husband in the war. Virginia Caroline Smith Aiken, a wife and mother, born into affluence and security, struggles to emerge from the financial and psychological problems of the postwar world. Susan Darden, also a wife and mother, details the uncertainties and frustrations of her life in Fayette, Mississippi. Jo Gillis tells the sad tale of a young mother straining to cope with the depressed circumstances enveloping most ministers in the aftermath of the war. As the wife of a Methodist Episcopal minister in the Alabama Conference she sacrifices herself into an early grave in an attempt to further her husband's career. Inability to collect a debt three times that of the $10,000 debt her father owed brought Anna Clayton Logan, her eleven brothers and sisters, and her parents face-to-face with starvation.
The Civil War Round Table
Author: Civil War Round Table (Chicago, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Running Scared
Author: James Wesley SilverPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034794
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
History News
Author: Faulkner's County
Author: Don Harrison DoylePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807849316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This history of Lafayette County, Mississippi, uses William Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past. From the arrival of Europeans in Chickasaw Indian territory in 1540 to Faulkner's death in 1962, Doyle chronicles more than four centuries of local history. 27 illustrations. 3 maps.