War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion by Wayne K. Dur

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War of Another Kind studies a North Carolina county during the Civil War period and draws broader implications. It is essentially a work of social history - akin in many ways to Michael Fellman's Inside War. The book fits well into Civil War courses, those on the antebellum period and wartime South, and broader social-history oriented courses.

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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 yeomanfarmers 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--asubsistence, as well as protection from violence--owed them as a minimal condition of their servitude.

Author Biography

Wayne K. Durrill is at University of Cincinnati.

Review

"Gives a lively and much-needed account of the underside of the Confederacy that heretofore only occasionally has seen the light of day."--North Carolina Historical Review"Durrill has done that which is no longer expected, skillfully combining the strengths of the best new social history with some quantitative analysis and excellent political and military narrative....War of Another Kind sets a high standard for future scholars."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Durrill's superb study...is a major contribution."--Science & Society"A finely crafted work....Coherent and compelling....Makes a significant contribution to understanding transition within agrarian societies [and] has importance both as a case study that suggests directions for future scholarship on Southern agriculture, and for comparative analysis of the demise of plantation society in the Americas."--Journal of Peasant Studies"Durrill's highly readable, provocative book will stimulate further inquiry into the war's internal effects, and for that reason, he is to be congratulated."--Civil War History"Offers an important glimpse into a deeply divided community of the Civil War era."--CHOICE"This is just what I've been looking for in my course on the Civil War. Most texts ignore local power relationships and the social history of the war. Dirrill's book returns it to the forefront."--Roy E. Finkenbine, Hampton University

Long Description

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 yeomanfarmers 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.

Review Text

"Gives a lively and much-needed account of the underside of the Confederacy that heretofore only occasionally has seen the light of day."--North Carolina Historical Review"Durrill has done that which is no longer expected, skillfully combining the strengths of the best new social history with some quantitative analysis and excellent political and military narrative....War of Another Kind sets a high standard for future scholars."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Durrill's superb study...is a major contribution."--Science & Society"A finely crafted work....Coherent and compelling....Makes a significant contribution to understanding transition within agrarian societies [and] has importance both as a case study that suggests directions for future scholarship on Southern agriculture, and for comparative analysis of the demise of plantation society in the Americas."--Journal of Peasant Studies"Durrill's highly readable, provocative book will stimulate further inquiry into the war's internal effects, and for that reason, he is to be congratulated."--Civil War History"Gives a lively and much-needed account of the underside of the Confederacy that heretofore only occasionally has seen the light of day."--North Carolina Historical Review"Durrill has done that which is no longer expected, skillfully combining the strengths of the best new social history with some quantitative analysis and excellent political and military narrative....War of Another Kind sets a high standard for future scholars."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Durrill's superb study...is a major contribution."--Science & Society"A finely crafted work....Coherent and compelling....Makes a significant contribution to understanding transition within agrarian societies [and] has importance both as a case study that suggests directions for future scholarship on Southern agriculture, and for comparative analysis of the demise of plantation society in the Americas."--Journal of Peasant Studies"Durrill's highly readable, provocative book will stimulate further inquiry into the war's internal effects, and for that reason, he is to be congratulated."--Civil War History"Offers an important glimpse into a deeply divided community of the Civil War era."--Choice"This is just what I've been looking for in my course on the Civil War. Most texts ignore local power relationships and the social history of the war. Dirrill's book returns it to the forefront."--Roy E. Finkenbine, Hampton University

Review Quote

"This is just what I've been looking for in my course on the Civil War.Most texts ignore local power relationships and the social history of the war.Dirrill's book returns it to the forefront."--Roy E. Finkenbine, HamptonUniversity

Details ISBN0195089235 Author Wayne K. Durrill Language English ISBN-10 0195089235 ISBN-13 9780195089233 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 975.6 Short Title WAR OF ANOTHER KIND Subtitle A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion Edited by Wayne K. Durrill Position Freedmen and Southern Society Project Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland, College Park DOI 10.1604/9780195089233 UK Release Date 1995-01-05 AU Release Date 1995-01-05 NZ Release Date 1995-01-05 US Release Date 1995-01-05 Illustrations maps Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 1995 Publication Date 1995-01-05 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 304 We've got this

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