War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion

ISBN-13: 9780195089233 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str.

Wayne K. Durrill

Opis

In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation society in a North Carolina coastal county. He details struggles among planters, slaves, yeoman farmers, and landless white laborers, as well as a guerrilla war and a clash between two armies that, in the end, destroyed all that remained of the county's social structure. He examines the failure of a planter-yeoman alliance, and discusses how yeoman farmers and landless white laborers allied themselves against planters, but to no avail. He also shows how slaves, when refugeed upcountry, tried unsuccessfully to reestablish their prerogatives--a subsistence, as well as protection from violence--owed them as a minimal condition of their servitude.

Recenzje

Funkhousers book raises several interesting, engaging and timely problems in both metaphysics and philosophy of mind and is a book that should not be missed by philosophers working in these fields.