The Northern Home Front During the Civil War / Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cimbala, Paul A. (Paul Alan), 1951- author.

Miller, Randall M., author.

Series:

Reflections on the Civil War era.

Reflections on the Civil War Era Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--United States--History--19th century.

Nationalism.

Patriotism--United States--History--19th century.

Patriotism.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

Northeastern States--Social conditions--19th century.

Northeastern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2017]

Summary:

This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions. 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 returning 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.

Contents:

Introduction

Communities on the verge of war

The secession crisis

Fort Sumter and the patriotic response

Rallying to the colors

Soldiers and civilians as neighbors

Incomplete families

Pastimes with purpose

Knowing war

Paying for the War

Producing for the War

Politics and dissent

Emancipation, conscription, and dissent

The transition from war to peace.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216123774

9780313352911

0313352917