The Northern Home Front during the Civil War
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The Northern Home Front during the Civil War
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Overview
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 returbaning 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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780313352904 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 02/16/2017 |
| Series: | Reflections on the Civil War Era |
| Pages: | 264 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d) |
About the Author
Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren '50 Sesquicentennial Chair and professor of history at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Communities on the Verge of War 1
Chapter 2 The Secession Crisis 13
Chapter 3 Fort Sumter and the Patriotic Response 23
Chapter 4 Rallying to the Colors 33
Chapter 5 Soldiers and Civilians as Neighbors 43
Chapter 6 Incomplete Families 53
Chapter 7 Pastimes with Purpose 67
Chapter 8 Knowing War 79
Chapter 9 Paying for the War 91
Chapter 10 Producing for the War 105
Chapter 11 Politics and Dissent 119
Chapter 12 Emancipation, Conscription, and Dissent 133
Chapter 11 The Transition from War to Peace 147
Notes 161
Bibliographic Essay 215
Index 231
What People are Saying About This
"Journalist Eric Sevareid once said, ‘War happens inside a man.' It also happens inside a woman, and inside homes and schools and churches, sometimes without our realizing it. Its effects may seem limited or may be far-reaching. Thanks to Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller, we now know better than we ever have before how far the Civil War reached inside the lives of those who remained on the home front. No one who cares about the Civil War should be without this book."
"Clearly written and based on the most recent scholarship, The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first comprehensive overview of the Union home front in twenty years. Cimbala and Miller combine the personal experiences of those who lived through the war with the latest scholarship, paying particular attention to the experiences of women and children, African Americans, and immigrants."
"Cimbala and Miller have produced a volume that gives broad, comprehensive coverage to the northern home front. Beyond all its other virtues, it is a delight to read, and the numerous, apt quotations make the experiences of northerners come alive and give the reader a real sense of this important period in U.S. history."
"This book is the place to start for readers who want to understand how the North's diverse communities responded to war and how the conflict penetrated into people's everyday experience. It offers a valuable overview of every imaginable topic and makes the personal stories of ordinary people come alive."