Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era – serie
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Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Inbunden, 1995
680 kr
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On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is …
Worth a Dozen Men
Women and Nursing in the Civil War South
Häftad, 2013
387 kr
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In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures. However, they were expected to exercise their talents only in the home; nursing strange men in hospitals was considered inappropriate, if not indecent. Nevertheless, in defiance of tradition, …
Intimate Reconstructions
Children in Postemancipation Virginia
Inbunden, 2015
904 kr
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In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia’s Reconstruction. Jones argues that questions of how to define, treat, reform, or protect children were never far from the surface of public debate and private concern in post–Civil War …
Apostles of Disunion
Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2017
402 kr
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Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book …
Apostles of Disunion
Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Häftad, 2017
256 kr
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Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book …
Lincoln's Dilemma
Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle Over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
Häftad, 2017
509 kr
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The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the …
Daydreams and Nightmares
A Virginia Family Faces Seccession and War
Av Brent Tarter
Häftad, 2017
294 kr
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The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, however, historian Brent Tarter shares the story of one Virginia family …
War Hits Home
The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia
Häftad, 2017
461 kr
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In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond, Isle of Wight, and Southampton Counties, the Suffolk campaign followed an …
Strife of Tongues
The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2018
654 kr
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Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that ""words become things."" Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But while the legislative maneuvering, factional alignments, and specific measures of the …
American Abolitionism
Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times Into Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2019
543 kr
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This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold …
Slavery and War in the Americas
Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870
Häftad, 2020
387 kr
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In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict …
Worst Passions of Human Nature
White Supremacy in the Civil War North
Inbunden, 2020
355 kr
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The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, however, was far more complex and troubling. In his latest book, Paul Escott lays bare the contrast between progress …
Newest Born of Nations
European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy
Inbunden, 2020
616 kr
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From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern nation. Southerners argued that because the Confederate nation was cast in the same mold as its …
Cacophony of Politics
Northern Democrats and the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2021
485 kr
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The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. A comprehensive overview, this book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the …
Take Care of the Living
Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia
Inbunden, 2009
601 kr
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Take Care of the Living assesses the short- and long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families of all classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia. Using letters, diaries, church minutes, and military and state records, as well as close analysis of the entire 1860 and 1870 …
Civil War Talks
Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans
Av George S. Bernard, Hampton Newsome m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
485 kr
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George S. Bernard was a Petersburg lawyer and member of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Over the course of his life, Bernard wrote extensively about his wartime experiences and collected accounts from other veterans. In 1892, he published War Talks of Confederate Veterans, …
Frederick Douglass
A Life in Documents
Inbunden, 2013
785 kr
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Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. He not only survived slavery to live in freedom but also became an outspoken critic …
Frederick Douglass
A Life in Documents
Av Frederick Douglass, L. Diane Barnes
Häftad, 2013
332 kr
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Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. He not only survived slavery to live in freedom but also became an outspoken critic …
Confederate Visions
Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War
Inbunden, 2013
543 kr
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Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. In Confederate Visions, Ian Binnington examines the roots of Confederate nationalism by analysing some of its most important symbols: Confederate …
Marching Masters
Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War
Inbunden, 2014
442 kr
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The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders …
Slavery and War in the Americas
Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870
Inbunden, 2014
616 kr
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In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America - the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international …
Lincoln's Dilemma
Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle Over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
Inbunden, 2014
355 kr
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The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the …
Daydreams and Nightmares
A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War
Av Brent Tarter
Inbunden, 2015
305 kr
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The story of secession—the prelude to perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history—has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, historian Brent Tarter uses a smaller, more intimate lens, sharing the story of one Virginia family who found themselves in the middle …
War Upon Our Border
Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War
Inbunden, 2016
616 kr
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War upon Our Border examines the experiences of two Ohio River Valley communities during the turmoil and social upheaval of the American Civil War. Although on opposite sides of the border between slavery and freedom, Corydon, Indiana, and Frankfort, Kentucky, shared a legacy of white settlement …
First Republican Army
The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2017
543 kr
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Although much is known about the political stance of the military at large during the Civil War, the political party affiliations of individual soldiers have received little attention. Drawing on archival sources from twenty-five generals and 250 volunteer officers and enlisted men, John Matsui …
Colossal Ambitions
Confederate Planning for a Post–Civil War World
Inbunden, 2020
616 kr
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Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future empire. Impervious to reality, …
