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- English
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The Northern Home Front during the Civil War
About this book
This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions. The Northern Home Front during the Civil War provides the first extensive treatment of the northern home front mobilizing for war in two decades. It collates a vast and growing scholarship on the many aspects of a citizenship organizing for and against war. The text focuses attention on the roles of women, blacks, immigrants, and other individuals who typically fall outside of scrutiny in studies of American war-making society, and provides new information on subjects such as raising money for war, civil liberties in wartime, the role of returning soldiers in society, religion, relief work, popular culture, and building support for the cause of the Union and freedom. Organized topically, the book covers the geographic breadth of the diverse northern home fronts during the Civil War. The chapters supply self-contained studies of specific aspects of life, work, relief, home life, religion, and political affairs, to name only a few. This clearly written and immensely readable book reveals the key moments and gradual developments over time that influenced northerners' understanding of, participation in, and reactions to the costs and promise of a great civil war.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Communities on the Verge of War
- Chapter Two: The Secession Crisis
- Chapter Three: Fort Sumter and the Patriotic Response
- Chapter Four: Rallying to the Colors
- Chapter Five: Soldiers and Civilians as Neighbors
- Chapter Six: Incomplete Families
- Chapter Seven: Pastimes with Purpose
- Chapter Eight: Knowing War
- Chapter Nine: Paying for the War
- Chapter Ten: Producing for the War
- Chapter Eleven: Politics and Dissent
- Chapter Twelve: Emancipation, Conscription, and Dissent
- Chapter Thirteen: The Transition from War to Peace
- Notes
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- About the Authors