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Ruin Nation
Destruction and the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2012
1299 kr
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During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation of ruins? …
Weirding the War
Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges
Inbunden, 2011
1299 kr
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“It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each …
Weirding the War
Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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“It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each …
Ruin Nation
Destruction and the American Civil War
Häftad, 2012
477 kr
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During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation of ruins? …
America's Corporal
James Tanner in War and Peace
Av James Marten
Inbunden, 2014
1253 kr
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James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away …
America's Corporal
James Tanner in War and Peace
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2014
503 kr
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James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away …
Empty Sleeves
Amputation in the Civil War South
Inbunden, 2015
1383 kr
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The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that doctors recklessly erred on the side of amputation, surgeons labored mightily to adjust to the medical quagmire of war. And as Brian Craig Miller …
Empty Sleeves
Amputation in the Civil War South
Häftad, 2015
527 kr
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The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that doctors recklessly erred on the side of amputation, surgeons labored mightily to adjust to the medical quagmire of war. And as Brian Craig Miller …
Blue, the Gray, and the Green
Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2015
1215 kr
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The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding, and …
Blue, the Gray, and the Green
Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
Av Brian Allen Drake, Brian Allen Drake
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
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The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding, and …
Lens of War
Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
Av J. Matthew Gallman, Gary W. Gallagher
Inbunden, 2015
788 kr
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Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the …
Driven from Home
North Carolina's Civil War Refugee Crisis
Inbunden, 2016
849 kr
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Examining refugees of Civil War–era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war’s displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life. In North Carolina, …
Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory
How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West
Av Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Inbunden, 2016
1467 kr
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The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social degeneration that did not necessarily end in 1865. This …
Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory
How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West
Av Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Häftad, 2016
421 kr
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The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social degeneration that did not necessarily end in 1865. This …
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Inbunden, 2017
1383 kr
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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of …
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Häftad, 2017
443 kr
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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of …
Lost President
A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America
Av Ruth Dunley
Inbunden, 2019
949 kr
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Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811–65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of his times in several states, personifying the nineteenth-century impulse to move across the American landscape. Smith’s Quixotic trail began in upstate New York, …
Driven from Home
North Carolina's Civil War Refugee Crisis
Häftad, 2018
510 kr
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Examining refugees of Civil War–era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war’s displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life. In North Carolina, …
Bodies in Blue
Disability in the Civil War North
Inbunden, 2019
707 kr
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In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them understudied by historians. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah Handley-Cousins expands and complicates our understanding of wartime disability by examining a …
Visions of Glory
The Civil War in Word and Image
Av Kathleen Diffley, Benjamin Fagan
Inbunden, 2019
735 kr
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Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile …
Visions of Glory
The Civil War in Word and Image
Av Kathleen Diffley, Benjamin Fagan
E-bok, 2019
613 kr
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Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile …
Household War
How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War
Av Lisa Tendrich Frank, LeeAnn Whites
Inbunden, 2020
1819 kr
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Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, …
Household War
How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War
Av Lisa Tendrich Frank, LeeAnn Whites
Häftad, 2020
608 kr
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Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, …
Slave-Trader's Letter-Book
Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
Av Jim Jordan
Häftad, 2019
348 kr
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In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave …
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
Av James Marten, Caroline E. Janney
Häftad, 2021
665 kr
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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for …
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
Av James Marten, Caroline E. Janney
Inbunden, 2021
2134 kr
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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for …
Bodies in Blue
Disability in the Civil War North
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them understudied by historians. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah Handley-Cousins expands and complicates our understanding of wartime disability by examining a …
War after the War
A New History of Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2022
2134 kr
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The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the …
War after the War
A New History of Reconstruction
Häftad, 2022
466 kr
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The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the …
Families’ Civil War
Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice
Inbunden, 2022
2053 kr
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This book tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discrimination. Taking a long view, from 1850 to the 1920s, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. shows how Civil War military service worsened already difficult …
