Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges /

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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 terƯrible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berry, Stephen William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.
Colección:Uncivil wars.
Temas:
1861-1865
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Social aspects
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Letting the war slip through our hands : material culture and the weakness of words in the Civil War era / Michael DeGruccio
  • The pleasures of Civil War ruins / Megan Kate Nelson
  • Confederate menace : sequestration on the North Carolina home front / Rodney J. Steward
  • The tale of three Kates : outlaw women, loyalty, and Missouri's long Civil War / LeeAnn Whites
  • "Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts" : courtship and coquetry in the Southern Confederacy / Anya Jabour
  • Love is a battlefield : Lizzie Alsop's flirtation with the Confederacy / Steven E. Nash
  • Dissecting the torture of Mrs. Owens : the story of a Civil War atrocity / Barton A. Myers
  • Hungry people in the wartime South : civilians, armies, and the food supply / Joan E. Cashin
  • The historian as death investigator / Stephen Berry.
  • How a cold snap in Kentucky led to freedom for thousands : an environmental story of emancipation / Amy Murrell Taylor
  • Rituals of horsemanship : a speculation on the ring tournament and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan / Paul Christopher Anderson
  • The loyal deserters : African American soldiers and community in Civil War Memphis / Andrew L. Slap
  • The arrest and court martial of Captain George Dobson / Kenneth W. Noe
  • Soldier-speak / Peter S. Carmichael
  • The Civil War career of General James Abbott Whistler / Daniel E. Sutherland
  • Confederate amputees and the women who loved (or tried to love) them / Brian Craig Miller
  • "Will they ever be able to forget?" : Confederate soldiers and mental illness in the defeated South / Diane Miller Sommerville
  • Ira Forbes's war / Lesley J. Gordon
  • Afterword / Michael Fellman.

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