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This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War-Era North
Contributor(s): Slap, Andrew L. (Editor), Smith, Michael Thomas (Editor)
ISBN: 0823245683     ISBN-13: 9780823245680
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE:   $99.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Social History
Dewey: 973.7
LCCN: 2012023505
Series: North's Civil War
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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Publisher Description:
While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and marched off to battle, social, economic, and political changes transformed northern society. In the generations following the conflict, historians tried to
understand and explain the North's Civil War experience. Many historical explanations became taken for granted, such as that the Union Army was ideologically Republican, northern Democrats were disloyal, and German Americans were lousy soldiers. Now in this eye-opening collection of
eleven stimulating essays, new and important information is unearthed that solidly challenges the old historical arguments.

The essays in This Distracted and Anarchical People range widely throughout the history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to reexamine old theories and discover new aspects of the nation's greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today as they were a century
and a half ago. What were the extent and limits of wartime dissent in the North? How could a president most effectively present himself to the public? Can the savagery of war ever be tamed? How did African Americans create and maintain their families?

This Distracted and Anarchical People highlights the newest scholarship on a diverse array of topics, bringing fresh insight to bear on some of the most important topics in history today--such as the democratic press in the antebellum North, peace movements, the Union Army and the elections of 1864,
Liberia and the U.S. Civil War, and African American veterans and marriage practices after Emancipation.

Contributor Bio(s): Slap, Andrew L.: -

Andrew L. Slap is Associate Professor of History at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era (Fordham University Press, 2006).and editor of Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's
Aftermath (University Press of Kentucky, 2010). His current project on African American communities around Memphis during the Civil War era is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Smith, Michael Thomas: - Michael Thomas Smith is an assistant professor of history at McNeese State University. He is the coeditor of Letters from a North Carolina Unionist: John A. Hedrick to Benjamin S. Hedrick, 1862-1865 (North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 2001), and the author of A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent (University of Delaware Press, 2003) and The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North (University of Virginia Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in American Nineteenth Century History, the New England Quarterly, and other journals.