Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era – serie
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Sex and the Civil War
Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
Häftad, 2019
299 kr
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Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed …
Lincoln's Proclamation
Emancipation Reconsidered
Häftad, 2012
371 kr
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The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South. True emancipation was accomplished over a longer period and by several means. Essays by eight distinguished contributors consider aspects of the …
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten
How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War
Häftad, 2013
343 kr
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More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides …
Civil War As a Theological Crisis
Av Mark A. Noll
Häftad, 2015
375 kr
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Prominent historian Mark Noll considers the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, as both Northerners and Southerners generally agreed on the authority of the Bible but disagreed about what it taught about slavery. He also surveys the observations of foreign Protestants …
World the Civil War Made
Häftad, 2015
474 kr
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At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation. In an expansive reimagining of post-Civil War America, the essays in this …
Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era
Häftad, 2015
401 kr
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Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life and that political historians have gone too far in asserting …
Gender and the Sectional Conflict
Av Nina Silber
Häftad, 2015
474 kr
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In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how …
Making Freedom
The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
Häftad, 2017
270 kr
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The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the …
Tales from the Haunted South
Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
Av Tiya Miles
Häftad, 2017
299 kr
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In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of ""ghost tours,"" frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of …
With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Häftad, 2018
357 kr
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When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon …
Intimations of Modernity
Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Häftad, 2019
372 kr
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Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market …
Second American Revolution
The Civil War-Era Struggle Over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
Inbunden, 2019
369 kr
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Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely civil--meaning national--and not merely a war, but instead an international conflict of ideas as well as armies. Its implications transformed the U.S. …
Rites of Retaliation
Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
Av Lorien Foote
Inbunden, 2021
1160 kr
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During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the conflict was civilized, in keeping with centuries of military tradition meant to restrain violence and preserve national honor. One hallmark of civilized …
Rites of Retaliation
Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
Av Lorien Foote
Häftad, 2021
311 kr
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During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the conflict was civilized, in keeping with centuries of military tradition meant to restrain violence and preserve national honor. One hallmark of civilized …
Count the Dead
Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death As We Know It
Inbunden, 2022
1160 kr
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The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles. In 1850, Americans died at an average age of 30. Today, the average is almost 80. This story is …
Count the Dead
Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death As We Know It
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles. In 1850, Americans died at an average age of 30. Today, the average is almost 80. This story is …
Citizens of a Stolen Land
A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
Inbunden, 2023
1233 kr
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This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense duress and signed a treaty that ceded …
Citizens of a Stolen Land
A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
Häftad, 2023
314 kr
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This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense duress and signed a treaty that ceded …
Fighting with the Past
How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2025
1160 kr
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Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth-century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of …
Fighting with the Past
How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War
Häftad, 2025
314 kr
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Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth-century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of …
