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He has another book, Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War. http://m.accessatlanta.com/news/entertainment/calendar/q-a-david-williams-historian-author-civil-war-how-/nQxmg/ On Jun 25, 2016 6:18 PM, "Louis Proyect via Marxism" < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > As it turns out, I recommended the wrong book the other day that had "Rich > Man's War" in the title even though it was germane to the topic of refusing > to fight for the ruling class. Nelson Blackstock, who knows firsthand about > the lives of workers in the South, clarified that the book he referred me > to was about opposition to the Civil War, not WWI even though the class > dynamics were identical. He was talking about a book very much in the > spirit of "The Free State of Jones". > > ---- > > In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War > experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and > Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor > whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across > the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat. > This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil > War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing numbers of > oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority, > undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper > classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a > class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in > virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter > elite. > > > full: > https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Mans-War-Confederate-Chattahoochee/dp/0820320331 > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/fred.r.murphy%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
