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Barton A. Myers is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University. Fellowships from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the North Caroliniana Society are among his other honors.
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- 35
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- #405,584
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- 2.5
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The body of the book, though, is a model of historical scholarship, obviously thoroughly researched and documented, and backed up with fine and deep appendices and bibliography. Readability is moderate; the author's odd syntax lends itself to sentences which either contain or appear to contain frequent lacunae and nonsequiters. More to this reader's point, his narrative is largely anecdote-driven by a worm's-eye-view of innumerable poultry confiscations, beatings, whippings, hangings, and loud death threats which I found repetitive. When he gets back to the larger picture, as in his good descriptions of state politics and even better coda which follows the postwar fates of a few of his Unionists and an account of a historiographical feud between Virginians and North Carolinians, it's compelling reading. The book's editors were sloppy; too many spelling and homonym errors have slipped through, and, above all, the book needs a county outline map. I doubt that even North Carolinians know their counties well enough to follow all of his many references, and the rest of us are left in total darkness.… (lisätietoja)