The Northern Home Front during the Civil War
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The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

  1. 262 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

About this book

With a new preface and updated historiographical essay. Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters and diaries of "ordinary people, " The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first full narrative history and analysis of the northern home front in almost a quarter-century. It examines the mobilization, recruitment, management, politics, costs, and experience of war from the perspective of the home front, with special attention to the ways the war affected the ideas, identities, interests, and issues shaping people's lives, and vice versa. The book looks closely at people's responses to war's demands, whether in supporting the Union cause or opposing it, and it measures the ways the war transformed society and economy or simply reconfirmed ideas and reinforced practices already underway. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War reveals, issues and concerns of emancipation, conscription, civil liberties, economic policies and practices, religion, party politics, war management, popular culture, and work were all part of what Lincoln rightly termed "a People's Contest" and as much as the armies in the field determined the outcome of the nation's ordeal by fire. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War shows, understanding the experience of the women and men on the home front is essential to realizing Walt Whitman's oft-quoted call to get "the real war" into the books.

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Yes, you can access The Northern Home Front during the Civil War by Paul A. Cimbala,Randall M. Miller in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & American Civil War History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: Communities on the Verge of War
  9. Chapter Two: The Secession Crisis
  10. Chapter Three: Fort Sumter and the Patriotic Response
  11. Chapter Four: Rallying to the Colors
  12. Chapter Five: Soldiers and Civilians as Neighbors
  13. Chapter Six: Incomplete Families
  14. Chapter Seven: Pastimes with Purpose
  15. Chapter Eight: Knowing War
  16. Chapter Nine: Paying for the War
  17. Chapter Ten: Producing for the War
  18. Chapter Eleven: Politics and Dissent
  19. Chapter Twelve: Emancipation, Conscription, and Dissent
  20. Chapter Thirteen: The Transition from War to Peace
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliographic Essay
  23. Index
  24. About the Author