This book evaluates the response of Blackburn's workers to the Cotton Famine and the American Civil War of 1861-65. The book... More > reveals the popular attitudes of ordinary folk during a time when they were reduced to the most painful levels of destitution. Set in the historical context of working-class violence, the author explores whether the cotton-starved operatives of Lancashire's largest weaving town remained peacefully stoic or whether their distress resulted in a campaign of violence. < Less

This series of essays studies a range of issues from American and English history. Starting with the reasons for Abraham... More > Lincoln's astonishing victory at the 1860 Presidential Election, the collection then investigates why he emancipated the slaves in 1863, how the Civil War and reconstruction influenced American historical writing in the late nineteenth century and the work of the revolutionary English historian, E.P.Thompson, whose studies into the lives of ordinary working people uncovered fascinating customs like the sale of wives in 1800s England. < Less

This book evaluates the response of Blackburn's workers to the Cotton Famine and the American Civil War of 1861-65. The book... More > reveals the popular attitudes of ordinary folk during a time when they were reduced to the most painful levels of destitution. Set in the historical context of working-class violence, the author explores whether the cotton-starved operatives of Lancashire's largest weaving town remained peacefully stoic or whether their distress resulted in a campaign of violence. < Less

This series of essays studies a range of issues from American and English history. Starting with the reasons for Abraham... More > Lincoln's astonishing victory at the 1860 Presidential Election, the collection then investigates why he emancipated the slaves in 1863, how the Civil War and reconstruction influenced American historical writing in the late nineteenth century and the work of the revolutionary English historian, E.P.Thompson, whose studies into the lives of ordinary working people uncovered fascinating customs like the sale of wives in 1800s England. < Less

This book evaluates the response of Blackburn's workers to the Cotton Famine and the American Civil War of 1861-65. The book... More > reveals the popular attitudes of ordinary folk during a time when they were reduced to the most painful levels of destitution. Set in the historical context of working-class violence, the author explores whether the cotton-starved operatives of Lancashire's largest weaving town remained peacefully stoic or whether their distress resulted in a campaign of violence. < Less