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Taylor Amy Murrell |
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Titolo |
The divided family in Civil War America [[electronic resource] /] / Amy Murrell Taylor |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Families - United States - History - 19th century |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
United States Social conditions To 1865 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-307) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Union father, rebel son -- Marriage and courtship -- Brothers and sisters -- Border crossing and the treason of family ties -- Border dramas and the divided family in the popular imagination -- Reconciliations lived and imagined -- Reconciliation and emancipation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting ""brother against brother."" The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession an |
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