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Substances of War

Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Civil War

Av Joseph M. Beilein Jr, Megan L. Bever

Del i serien UnCivil Wars

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The Substances of War explores how drugs, alcohol, and other substances were perceived, used, and fought over during the Civil War era. Because the Civil War unfolded in a culture already saturated in drugs, the essays in this collection take substance use and abuse as the center of its study, charting the consumption of many substances—from water, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol to quinine and opiates—from the beginning of the Civil War to its contested and indeterminate endings.In doing so, the dozen essays collectively examine how the war changed the production, perception, and consumption of these substances during this era. Incorporating a wide range of themes, substances, and actors, the authors illuminate the ways that the use and meanings of these substances changed as a result of the war, and how drugs, alcohol, medicine, poison, and even water not only altered the people who used them but the country as a whole.
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Joseph M. Beilein Jr. (Editor) JOSEPH M. BEILEIN JR. is a Civil War historian who specializes in gender, violence, guerrilla warfare, and culture. He is the author of A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood and Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri. He is the editor of William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare and coeditor (with Matthew C. Hulbert) of The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth. He lives in New York.Megan L. Bever (Editor) MEGAN L. BEVER is a Civil War historian who specializes in alcohol, food studies, public history, and gender. She is author of At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War, coeditor (with Lesley Gordon and Laura Mammina) of American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era, and coeditor (with Scott Saurez) of The Historian Behind the History: Conversations with Public Historians. She lives in Missouri.Jonathan S. Jones (Editor) JONATHAN S. JONES is a Civil War historian who specializes in the history of drugs and medicine. He is author of Opium Slavery: The Civil War, Veterans, and America’s First Opioid Crisis. He resides in Virginia.

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