Appalachia in the Sixties

Decade of Reawakening
Herausgeber: Walls, David S; Stephenson, John B

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought on Virginia soil, 1864 brought military campaigning to the Old Dominion. For the first time during the Civil War, the majority of Virginia's forces fought inside the state's borders. Yet soldiers were a distinct minority among the Virginians affected by the war. In Virginia at War, 1864, scholars explore various aspects of the civilian experience in Virginia including transportation and communication, wartime literature, politics and the press, higher education, patriotic celebrations, and early efforts at reconstruction in Union-occupied Virginia. The volume focuses on the effects of war on the civilian infrastructure as well as efforts to maintain the Confederacy. As in previous volumes, the book concludes with an edited and annotated excerpt of the Judith Brockenbrough McGuire diary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813101354
• ISBN-10: 0813101352
• Artikelnr.: 27874677

Autorenporträt

David S. Walls, professor emeritus of sociology at Sonoma State University, served on the staff of the Appalachian Volunteers, doing community-organizing work in central Appalachia. He is the author of The Activist's Almanac: The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America. John B. Stephenson, a native of the Appalachian mountains, was the first director of the Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky and served as the president of Berea College from 1984 to 1994. He was the author of numerous books including Shiloh: A Mountain Community.