War matters : material culture in the Civil War era / edited by Joan E. Cashin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cashin, Joan E., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities.

United States.

History.

Antiquities.

Material culture--United States.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

John Brown's Pikes: assembling the future in antebellum America / Jason Phillips

Relics from two wars: Revolutionary artifacts in the Civil War era / Joan E. Cashin

Nature as material culture: Antietam National Battlefield / Lisa M. Brady and Timothy Silver

Saved by a testament: books as shields among Union and Confederate soldiers / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray

The material culture of weapons in the Civil War / Earl J. Hess

Scabrous matters: spurious vaccinations in the Confederacy / Robert D. Hicks

Fitted up for freedom: the material culture of refugee relief / Sarah Jones Weicksel

There's no place like home: gender, family, and the Confederate Alabama household / Victoria E. Ott

The trophies of victory and the relics of defeat: returning home in the spring of 1865 / Peter S. Carmichael

The stuff of defeat: material culture and the downfall of Jefferson Davis / Yael A. Sternhell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: War matters.

ISBN:

9781469643212

1469643219

Publisher Number:

40028531157

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.