audiobook Do We Need Religion?: On the Experience of Self-transcendence (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) by Hans Joas in History

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In July of 1780; when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure; a small but important battle took place on James Williamson’s plantation in what is now York County; South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson’s Plantation; or “Huck’s Defeat” as it later came to be known; laid the groundwork for the vicious partisan warfare waged by the militiamen on the Carolina frontier against the superior forces of the British Army; and it paved the way for the calamitous defeats that the British suffered at Hanging Rock; Musgrove’s Mill; Kings Mountain; Blackstock’s Plantation and Cowpens; all in the South Carolina backcountry. In this groundbreaking new study; historian Michael C. Scoggins provides an in-depth account of the events that unfolded in the Broad and Catawba River valleys of upper South Carolina during the critical summer of 1780. Drawing extensively on first-person accounts and military correspondence; much of which has never been published before; Scoggins tells a dramatic story that begins with the capture of an entire American army at Charleston in May and ends with a resounding series of Patriot victories in the Carolina Piedmont during the late summer of 1780-―victories that set Lord Cornwallis and the British Army irrevocably on the road to defeat and to surrender at Yorktown in October 1781.