Household War : How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War /

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"Household War is a collection of essays that explores the Civil War through the household. According to the editors, the household served as 'the basic building block for American politics, economics, and social relations.' As such, the scholars of this volume make the case that the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Whites, LeeAnn (Editor ), Frank, Lisa Tendrich (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Social aspects.
Households.
Families.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Menages (Statistique) > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Familles > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Households > United States > History > 19th century.
Families > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Civil War as a household war / Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites
  • The material world of Mary Todd Lincoln : her households in peace and war / Joan E. Cashin
  • Householder and general : Lee's war as a household war / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
  • The divided houses of Ulysses S. Grant / Brooks D. Simpson
  • The soldier's dream of home / Jonathan W. White
  • "Now I can bear my ills patiently" : the expanding realm of Wisconsin households during the Civil War / Julie A. Mujic
  • Written on the heart : soldiers' letters, the household supply line, and the relational war / LeeAnn Whites
  • A "fearful family quarrel" : the Union assault on southern households as battle strategy / Lisa Tendrich Frank
  • War's domestic corollary : Union occupation households in the Civil War South / Margaret Storey
  • Creek and Seminole households on the trail of blood on ice / Andrew K. Frank
  • "A terrible way to bring up children" : escaped prisoners and the home as site of war / Lorien Foote
  • Disordered households : Reconstruction, Klan terror, and the law / Victoria E. Bynum
  • Dead husband, dead son : widows, mothers-in-law, and mourning in the Confederacy / Angela Esco Elder
  • Stand by your manhood : the United Confederate veterans and the rehabilitation of the Southern household / Brian Craig Miller
  • Afterword : from household to personhood in America / Stephen Berry.

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