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    The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
    The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
    The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
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    The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    Written by Bruce Levine

    Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez

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    The J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois and associate editor of North and South magazine, Bruce Levine presents a gripping chronicle of the cultural and economic upheaval the South experienced during and after the Civil War. Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise through the voices of those who lived through the conflict.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 8, 2013
    ISBN9781470337025
    The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
    Author

    Bruce Levine

    Bruce Levine is the bestselling author of four books on the Civil War era, including The Fall of the House of Dixie and Confederate Emancipation, which received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and was named one of the top ten works of nonfiction of its year by The Washington Post. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois. 

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    • 3/5
      Although the book provided a lot of information gleaned from the writings of individuals during the Civil War, the book just seemed like it took forever to get through - I read a lot of non-fiction, especially books dealing with war time, but this one I seemed to struggle with. Also, although after going back and looking at the jacket and some online information, I was surprised to see this book covered only the Civil War period in the south and did not cover any changes in the south much beyond the end of the war. I guess I was expecting, based on the subtitle of "the Social Revolution That Transformed the South" that there would be more coverage of the true social revolution in the south that has taken place in the 150 years since the end of the war - but that time period was not covered. Not a criticism of the book as I should have looked at the description ahead of time....
    • 5/5
      Wonderful addition to the study of the social history of the Civil War.
    • 5/5
      A much different perspective on the Civil War, focusing on slavery and Southern Whites' relationship to it. Levine makes clear, as do some other recent books, that slavery was the reason for the civil war and that the post-war Southern revisionist view of the war as a fight for states rights was nonsense. As this narrative shows, however, Southern planters (the largest slaveholders) certainly did employ states' rights as a reason not to heed the Confederate Government's calls to provide slaves to help the army, build fortifications, and in the last resort, become soldiers. In each case, the large planters reacted with fury about an over-reaching government taking their personal property! The author shows that the breakdown of the slave system within the South as invading Northern armies caused slaveholders to flee, losing most of their slaves in the process, was a major factor in the hard fought and overlong Union path to victory. Levine also shows how an overly forgiving North handed their lands back to the large slaveholders or to Northern entrepreneurs who hired ex-slave labor at rock bottom prices and began the exploitation that lasted, in its worse form, for perhaps a hundred years.If you are worn out on the Civil War and Civil War books, you should still pick up this one and have your eyes opened a bit.
    • 4/5
      Really enjoyable read about how Southern culture and social structures affected the Civil War. Lots of anecdotes mixed in with the statistics to keep things interesting!
    • 4/5
      I have read a lot on the Civil War but do not consider myself a Civil War buff. I do not think it was really necessary to read this book, but it struck me as probably an interesting book to read, and I was not wrong. It tells the story of the war from the standpoint of its effect on slavery. It shows conclusively what I have long known--the cause of the war was the desire to maintain slavery in the South. There can be no doubt of that. As usual, it was satisfying to read of the last days of the war, and that those who sought to maintain slavery had to face the truth in regard to the evil thereof and that it would be abolished despite the fact they thought such abolishment would be bad for them. It is true that in the years after the war the losers managed, after a time, to throttle the blacks of the South, but though it took a hundred years even that effort was eventually overcome. The book is carefully researched and fully footnoted, with an excellent bibliography.