| The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War Contributor(s): Cimbala, Paul A. (Editor), Miller, Randall M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823232026 ISBN-13: 9780823232024 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 973.8 |
| LCCN: 2010013603 |
| Series: Reconstructing America (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.14 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end. In doing so, it shows that the wardid not actually end with Lee's surrenderat Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination in Washington. As the contributors show, major issues remained, including defining freedom; rebuilding the South; integrating women and blacks into postwar society, culture, and polities; deciding the place of the military in public life; demobilizing or redeploying soldiers; organizing anew party system; and determining the scope and meanings of union. |
Contributor Bio(s): Miller, Randall M.: - Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren '05 Sesquicentennial Chair and Professor of History at Saint Joseph's University. He is author or editor of numerous books. Among his books related to the Civil War are, as coeditor, Religion and the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1998), and The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). His most recent book, coauthored with Paul Cimbala, is The Northern Home Front in the Civil War (Praeger, 2012).Cimbala, Paul A.: - Paul A. Cimbala is Professor of History at Fordham University and editor of the Press's series The North's Civil War and Reconstructing America. |