The hungry mills

by Norman Longmate

319 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1978

Reviews

[Lee Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.0 - Detailed overview of the implications and social reform reactions to the cotton famine during the American Civil war period. What could have been a dry analysis is actually a lively narrative full of very human tales. The final chapters regarding the ‘working men’s’ support or not for the South, is somewhat contentious and subsequently seen as revisionist, see David Brown’s work: ‘Myth, Manchester, and the Battle of British Public Opinion during the American Civil War’