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Household war : how Americans lived and fought the Civil War

Bynum, Victoria E.(Contributions by)Cashin, Joan(Contributions by)Elder, Angela Esco(Contributions by)Foote, Lorien(Contributions by)Miller, Brian Craig(Contributions by)White, Jonathan W.(Contributions by)Frank, Lisa Tendrich(Edited by)Whites, LeeAnn(Edited by)Berry, Stephen(Series edited by)Taylor, Amy Murrell(Series edited by)
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Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War.

The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women.

From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household.

They explore how households influenced Confederate and Union military strategy, the motivations of soldiers and civilians, and the occupation of captured cities, as well as the experiences of Native Americans, women, children, freedpeople, injured veterans, and others.

The result is a unique and much needed approach to the study of the Civil War. Household War demonstrates that the Civil War can be understood as a revolutionary moment in the transformation of the household order.

The original essays by distinguished historians provide an inclusive examination of how the war flowed from, required, and resulted in the restructuring of the nineteenth-century household.

Contributors explore notions of the household before, during, and after the war, unpacking subjects such as home, family, quarrels, domestic service and slavery, manhood, the Klan, prisoners and escaped prisoners, Native Americans, grief, and manhood.

The essays further show how households redefined and reordered themselves as a result of the changes stemming from the Civil War.

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University of Georgia Press
082035631X / 9780820356310
Hardback
973.71
30/01/2020
United States
English
312 pages
23 cm