UnCivil Wars Series – serie
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America's Corporal
James Tanner in War and Peace
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2014
470 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
E-bok, 2015
582 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 …
Lens of War
Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
Av J. Matthew Gallman, Gary W. Gallagher
E-bok, 2015
519 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
E-bok, 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, …
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
E-bok, 2017
1384 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
E-bok, 2019
989 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, …
Bodies in Blue
Disability in the Civil War North
E-bok, 2019
487 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 …
