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Keep the Days Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women / Steven M. Stowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stowe, Steven M., 1946- author.
- Series:
- Civil War America (Series)
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slaveholders--Southern States--Diaries.
- Slaveholders.
- Women, White--Southern States--Diaries.
- Women, White.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Delving into wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance - and the limits - of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past.
- Contents:
- Reading the diary
- Keeping the diary
- Wartime
- Men
- Slaves
- Herself
- Appendix : a guide to the diaries and diarists.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890854292
- 9781469640976
- 146964097X
- 9781469640983
- 1469640988
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