Ford A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99870-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addressesthe key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 originalessays by top scholars in the field.
* An authoritative volume that surveys the history andhistoriography of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
* Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books andarticles in the field
* Includes discussions on scholarly advances in U.S. Civil Warhistory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ford, Lacy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on the contributors vii
Introduction: A Civil War in the Age of Capital 1
Lacy K. Ford
Part I: Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the Civil War
1 Slavery and the Union, 1789-1833 25
Douglas R. Egerton
2 The Market Revolution 41
John Larson
3 Slavery and the Old South 60
Larry Hudson
4 Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South 75
Charles C. Bolton
5 Humanitarian Reform and Antislavery 94
James B. Stewart
6 Women in the Antebellum North 112
Teresa Murphy
7 Women in the Old South 128
Michele Gillespie
8 The Road to Secession 152
Michael Morrison
9 The Republican Triumph 167
John Ashworth
10 And the War Came 183
Daniel Crofts
Part II: The Civil War and American Society
11 Saving the Union 203
Kevin Gannon
12 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Union 223
Carol Reardon
13 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Confederacy 239
Steven Woodworth
14 The Confederate Home Front 258
Mary DeCredico
15 Emancipation 277
Joseph P. Reidy
Part III: Reconstruction and the New Nation
16 Defining Reconstruction 299
O. Vernon Burton, David Herr, and Matthew Cheney
17 The Politics of Reconstruction 323
Michael Perman
18 The Economics of Reconstruction 342
Peter A. Coclanis and Scott Marler
19 Southern Labor and Reconstruction 366
R. Tracy McKenzie
20 Northern Women during the Age of Emancipation 386
Nina Silber
21 Southern Women during the Age of Emancipation 403
Jeannie Whayne
22 The Legacy of Confederate Defeat 423
Gaines M. Foster
23 Reconstruction and the Nation 447
Heather Richardson
Bibliography 468
Index 504

Über Autor(innen)

Lacy Ford is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the recipient of many awards in American and Southern history including the 1999 NEH Fellowship Award and the Francis B. Simkins prize for his book Origins of Southern Radicalism (1988).