...Paul D. Escott Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Southern Yeomen and the Confederacy Paul D. Escott Nonslaveholding yeomen farmers had an anomalous position in the antebellum South. They were the dominant group in terms of num­ bers but not in political power or social influence...

... of the book, with its peculiar universe-as-dream idea, brought him a long-sought peace together with that sense of personal integration without which the mind is staggered. Charles Duffy. Books 455 MIDDLE-CLASS FARMERS OF THE OLD SOUTH The Tennessee Yeomen, 1840-1860. By Blanche Henry Clark. Nashville...

... egalitarian society in which independent yeomen . . . relied on themselves and their local institutions for military de­ fense. After the militaristic wing of the Federalist Party had helped to destroy it, the Republicans found as Adam Smith, who is not mentioned by Dr. Kohn, had predicted...

.... Particularly valuable is the author s in-depth profile of Alabama and Mississippi party leaders on the state, county, and local level during this period. The traditional view of Whigs as wealthy planters and merchants, and Democrats as slaveholding farmers and yeomen is, he believes, an oversimplification...

... as slaveholding farmers and yeomen is, he believes, an oversimplification. Economic status or occupation, he writes, did not influence party affiliations so much as did age and social position (p. 100). Young, ambitious lawyers, men on their way up driving for planter status, were particularly active...

... tional military establishment proposed by nationalists implied diver­ sity, division of labor, [and] hierarchy . . . [in] a stable nation which could protect its interests in the Atlantic world of trade and empire, rather than a more egalitarian society in which independent yeomen . . . relied...

... demonstrate that most Southern white families were neither rich nor poor but occupied a middle position. They may be variously designated, depending on one s preference among terms, as yeomen, middle-class farmers, or plain folk. With his major thesis well established, Owsley devotes most of the present book...

... white families were neither rich nor poor but occupied a middle position. They may be variously designated, depending on one s preference among terms, as yeomen, middle-class farmers, or plain folk. With his major thesis well established, Owsley devotes most of the present book to putting flesh...

... the ideas and customs of the mother country. Although there was no order of nobility in the colony, still there was a sharp cleavage separating gentlemen from yeomen, and yeomen from the agricultural servant. Social distinctions, marked by badges and in­ signia, were to be found in Virginia as in England...

... on a farm in Chatham County, North Carolina, Poe was the son and nephew of Alliance yeomen and followers of L. L. Polk and James B. Weaver. Weaned on agrarian reformist literature and the homey virtues of the overwhelmingly Baptist and Methodist countryside, Poe early displayed a facile mind and pen...

... of a few yeomen recruited from the back hills, they were members of the same social class, they were either planters owning estates in the fertile lowgrounds of the different streams, or young men engaged in the several professional callings, with a small sprinkling of youths who had left their colleges...

... and 1715 a big, politically conscious electorate and adds (p. 46) a very considerable number of politically minded gentry or pros­ perous yeomen needed to be canvassed. In such elections party is of supreme importance, and it makes nonsense of Professor Walcott s thesis that politics of this age...

... are important in Kant because, insofar as they are extrapersonal, they raise in the most fundamental way the question of how persons can know them. They are, in Kant s sense, transcendental; yet a particular man the off­ spring of Lincolnshire yeomen, born on Christmas Day 1642, a creature inhabiting a unique...

... University, one of the finest minds in South India, coming himself from a stock of what might be termed yeomen farmers of the best type, succeeded in some organization in parts of South India with the result of getting the rural point of view definitely represented. But that has been an isolated case...

... in the tabulations of Ellis than in our own. Of the 829 names of eminent British men and women with which Ellis deals, 18.5 came from the upper classes or from good families ; 6 from yeomen and farmers, whom he ranks next; 16.7 from the church; 7.1 from the law; 4.2 from the army; 1.9 from the navy and the sea; 3.6...

... of nonslaveholders, Southern yeomen, who were neither poor nor affluent, and who represented a majority of the South’s white population. Despite the book’s title, Du Bois insists that Reconstruction repre­ sented far more than a piece of African American history. As the book’s long subtitle proclaims,1...

... large, if not the largest, factors in the past of this region. But all of the South was not engaged in commercial agriculture. There were the yeomen, who bought and sold comparatively little, who were not dependent on the market for staple crops, who fed and clothed themselves with the products...

... one reads that in the fourteenth century English yeomen excelled as archers because they had learned not to draw the string of the bow but instead to hold the string rigid and throw the whole weight of the body forward into bending the bow; thatch was already giving way to red tiles on London roofs...

... out that Phillips dealt only with the larger units in his analyses, and his observation is well taken.15 Smaller planters and nonslaveholding yeomen were important groups in the Old South. In a larger sense, however, the criticism loses some of its impact. As Phillips recognized, and as Eugene D...

... Kate becomes a kind of refrain in the early chapters. Its principal value, we are told, is ritualistic. They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were. Next year they would do Quality Street or The Yeomen...