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UNINA9910830097703321 |
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Titolo |
The Civil War era : an anthology of sources / / edited by Lyde Cullen Sizer and Jim Cullen |
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Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing Ltd, , [2005] |
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©2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-32140-0 |
9786611321406 |
0-470-75913-5 |
0-470-75911-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (464 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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History |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Sources |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources; Contents; Part XI: Gender Battles; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The American Civil War in the Twenty-first Century; A Civil War Chronology; Part I: The Impending Crisis; 1 A House Divided; 2 The Divided South, Democracy's Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War; 3 The Impending Crisis: Primary; Sources Speech on the Compromise of 1850; In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Escaped slave advertisements from The Key to Uncle; Part II: Justifying the War |
4 The Spirit of '615 Justifying the War: Primary Sources; The Confederate Cornerstone; Diary entry; Disunion for Existing Causes; A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States; Part III: The Battle Front; 6 ''Dangled Over Hell'': The Trauma of the Civil War; 7 The Battle Front: Primary Sources; The Red Badge of Courage; Letter from the Peninsula Campaign; J.C.R., The Battle of Fredricksburg; Letter from the Red River; Part IV: The Home Front; 8 The War at Home; 9 ''For the Boys in Blue'': Organizing the US Sanitary Commission; 10 The Home Front: Primary Sources; Diary entry |
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Letter to Norfleet PerryLetter to Solomon Steward; Letter to Lydia Bixby; Part V: Wartime Economies; 11 Industrial Workers and the Costs of War; 12 Wartime Economies: Primary Sources; The Mind of the South; Letters to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton; Part VI: Slavery During Wartime; 13 A Loss of Mastery; 14 ''Answering Bells is Played Out'': Slavery and the Civil War; 15 Slavery During Wartime: Primary Sources; Diary Entry; Letter from Wilson's Landing, Virginia; Part VII: Emancipation; 16 The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation; 17 Emancipation: Primary Sources |
Letter to Abraham LincolnLetter to Horace Greeley; Emancipation Proclamation; Emancipation Proclaimed; Address at Gettysburg; Second Inaugural Address; Part VIII: Resistance; 18 A Multiplicity of Grievances; 19 Resistance: Primary Sources; Opinion on the Draft; Letter to Henry Fowler; Part IX: War on the Frontier; 20 The Way to Pea Ridge; 21 War on the Frontier: Primary Sources Account of Sioux executions; Account of Sioux Executions; Patriotic Iowa; Part X: Wartime Politics; 22 The Confederate South at High Tide; 23 To Finish the Task: The Election of 1864 |
24 Wartime Politics: Primary SourcesChiefly About War Matters; Work; 25 What Shall We Do? Confederate Women Confront the Crisis; 26 When God Made Me I Wasn't Much, But I's a Man Now; 27 Gender Battles: Primary Sources; General Order No. 28; Letter from Beaufort, South Carolina; Obtaining Supplies; Part XII: The Written War; 28 Popular Literary Culture in Wartime; 29 The Written War: Primary Sources; The Great Army of the Sick; A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim; Battle Hymn of the Republic; John Lamar; Part XIII: Victory and Defeat; 30 The Same Holy Cause |
31 Victory and Defeat: Primary Sources |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology, from Lincoln's Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary materials present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship. Contains an extensive selection of writings and illustrations on the American Civil War Reflects society and culture as well as the politics and key battles of the Civil War Reproduces and links primary and secondary sources to encourage exploration of the material |
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