UID:
almahu_9949384204502882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)
ISBN:
0429059604
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9780429059605
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9780429601996
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0429601999
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9780429607516
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0429607512
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9780429596476
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0429596472
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in American history
Content:
Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," c.1830-1877. Offering an unparalleled scope, from the internal politics of southern households to trans-Atlantic propaganda battles, these essays address the fluidity and negotiability of racial and gendered identities, of criminal and transgressive behaviors, of contingent, shifting loyalties and of the hopes of freedom that found expression in refugee camps, court rooms and literary works.
Note:
Introduction: Negotiating the Peripheries / Laura R. Sandy and Marie S. Molloy -- Part I: Negotiating Perceptions of Slavery, Civil War and the Confederacy -- 1. The Republic on Trial or Slavery Under Fire?: International Perspectives on the Nature of America's Civil War / Don H. Doyle -- 2. Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65) / Kristen Brill -- 3. Whose Hearth and Home?: White Civil War-Era Loyalties in Central Louisiana / David T. Ballantyne -- Part II: A Stable Society?: Transgressive Behaviors and Lives on the Peripheries -- 4. "Negro Thieves" and Abolitionists: Slave Stealing in Kentucky in the Civil War Era / Laura R. Sandy -- 5. Class, Color and Conflict: Separation and Divorce in Southern White Marriage in the Civil War Era / Marie S. Molloy -- 6. Fashioning Whiteness: Teaching the Ways That Slavery Defined Race Before and After the Civil War / Catherine Armstrong -- Part III: African-American Experiences of Emancipation and Freedom Reconsidered -- 7. "The Contraband's Death Is More Miserable Than Her Life": Violence, Visibility, and the Medicalization of Freedom in the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- 8. Emancipation in the Dock: The Problems of Freedom in the Reconstruction Courtroom / Erik Mathisen -- 9. "Let Us Begin Life Anew, and Learn to Live in Earnest!": Free Black Women and the Challenges of Freedom in the Civil War Era / Rebecca J. Fraser.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered. London ; New York, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 ISBN 9780367181222
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429059605
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429059605
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