This Distracted and Anarchical People : : New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War–Era North /

This Distracted and Anarchical People : : New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War–Era North / / ed. by Andrew L. Slap.

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While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and marched off to battle, social, economic, and political changes transformed northern society. In the generations following the conflict, historians tried to understand and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Bennett, Michael J.,
Gannon, Barbara A.,
Holt, Michael F.,
Holzer, Harold,
Isham, Matthew,
Keller, Christian B.,
Orr, Timothy J.,
Sandow, Robert M.,
Slap, Andrew L.,
Smith, Michael Thomas,
Warshauer, Matthew,
White, Jonathan W.,
Younger, Karen Fisher,
HerausgeberIn:
Slap, Andrew L.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The North's Civil War
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War–Era North
  • “A Press Th at Speaks Its Opinions Frankly and Openly and Fearlessly”: The Contentious Relationship between the Democratic Press and the Party in the Antebellum North
  • Abraham Lincoln, Manhood, and Nineteenth-Century American Political Culture
  • Damnable Treason or Party Organs? Democratic Secret Societies in Pennsylvania
  • Copperheads in Connecticut: A Peace Movement Th at Imperiled the Union
  • “All Manner of Schemes and Rascalities”: Th e Politics of Promotion in the Union Army
  • “For My Part I Dont Care Who Is Elected President”: Th e Union Army and the Elections of 1864
  • New Perspectives in Civil War Ethnic History and Their Implications for Twenty-First-Century Scholarship
  • The Black Flag and Confederate Soldiers: Total War from the Bottom Up?
  • Liberia and the U.S. Civil War
  • “No Regular Marriage”: African American Veterans and Marriage Practices aft er Emancipation
  • “She Is a Member of the 23rd”: Lucy Nichols and the Community of the Civil War Regiment
  • Afterword. On Mark Neely: An Appreciation
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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