{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-ozarks-volume-2-the-conflicted-ozarks-volume-2-9780252042737","title":"A History of the Ozarks  Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks (Volume 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest and west  North and South  frontier and civilization  and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region  neighbor turned against neighbor  unleashing a generation of animus and violence that lasted long after 1865. The second volume of Brooks Blevinss history begins with the regions distinctive relationship to slavery. Largely unsuitable for plantation farming  the Ozarks used enslaved persons on a smaller scale or  in some places  not at all. Blevins moves on to the devastating Civil War years where the dehumanizing  personal nature of Ozark conflict was made uglier by the predations of marching armies and criminal gangs. Blending personal stories with a wide narrative scope  he examines how civilians and soldiers alike experienced the war  from brutal partisan warfare to ill-advised refugee policies to womens struggles to safeguard farms and stay alive in an atmosphere of constant danger. The war stunted the regions growth  delaying the development of Ozarks society and the processes of physical  economic  and social reconstruction. More and more  striving uplanders dedicated to modernization fought an image of the Ozarks as a land of mountaineers and hillbillies hostile to the idea of progress. Yet the dawn of the twentieth century saw the uplands emerge as an increasingly uniform culture forged  for better and worse  in the tumult of a conflicted era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45921859305525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252042735","price":238.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252042737.jpg?v=1787606760","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-ozarks-volume-2-the-conflicted-ozarks-volume-2-9780252042737","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}