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Another Civil War - Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868 (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R846
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Another Civil War - Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868 (Paperback, New Ed):...

Another Civil War - Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868 (Paperback, New Ed)

Grace Palladino

Series: The North's Civil War

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Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize of the Organization of American HistoriansAnother Civil War explores a tumultuous era of social change in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania. Because the Union Army depended on anthracite to fuel steam-powered factories, locomotives, and battle ships, coal miners in Schuylkill, Luzerne, and Carbon Counties played a vital role in the Northern war effort. However, that role was complicated by a history of ethnic, political, and class conflicts: after years of struggle in an unsafe and unstable industry, miners expected to use their wartime economic power to win victories for themselves and their families. Yet they were denounced as traitors and draft resisters, and their strikes were broken by Federal troops. Focusing on the social and economic impact of the Civil War on a group of workers central to that war, this dramatic narrative raises important questions about industrialization and work-place conflicts in the mid-1860s, about the rise of a powerful, centralized government, and about the ties between government and industry that shaped class relations. It traces the deep, local roots of wartime strikes in the coal regions and demonstrates important links between national politics, military power, and labor organization in the years before, during, and immediately after the Civil War.

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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The North's Civil War
Release date: March 2006
First published: June 2006
Introduction by: Grace Palladino
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 216
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-2591-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-8232-2591-7
Barcode: 9780823225910

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