Crossing the Deadlines : Civil War Prisons Reconsidered /

The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on bold initiatives with...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gray, Michael P., 1968- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisons.
Prisoners.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Prisoners of war.
Fouilles (Archeologie) > États-Unis.
Prisons > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Excavations (Archaeology) > United States.
Prisons > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Prisonniers et prisons.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Nature and prisons: toward an environmental history of captivity / Evan A. Kutzler
  • Civil War captives and a captivated home front: the rise of prisons as dark tourist destinations / Michael P. Gray
  • Catholics in captivity: priests, prisoners, and the living faith in Civil War military prisons / Angela M. Zombek
  • "The sternest feature of war": prisoners of war and the practice of retaliation / Lorien Foote
  • Loathsome diseases and principles: conceptualizing race and slavery in Civil War prisons / Christopher Barr
  • "De bottom rails on top now": Black Union guards and Confederate prisoners of war / Kelly D. Mezurek
  • Johnson's island prison uncovered: an archaeological exploration of a Northern Civil War prison / David R. Bush
  • Lost and found on the Southern side: the resurrection of Camp Lawton / John K. Derden
  • Civil War prisons, memory, and the problem of reconciliation / Benjamin G. Cloyd.

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