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The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (Paperback, New ed)
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The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (Paperback, New ed)
Series: American Ways
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Loot Price R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
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In the wake of the firing on Fort Sumter, outraged Northerners
looked forward to a quick and decisive victory over the Confederate
rebels. But after the First Battle of Bull Run it became clear to
supporters of the Union that the Civil War would be prolonged and
deadly. How Northern society mobilized to fight this first great
modern war is the subject of J. Matthew Gallman's perceptive
history. Drawing on a wide range of up-to-date scholarship and
addressing the issues from a fresh perspective, his book fills a
surprising void in Civil War literature. Gallman's focus is on
continuity and change what traditions the North relied on in
preparing for war, and what adjustments it made in its behavior and
institutions. From his analysis it seems clear that the Civil War
was not the great watershed in political, economic, and social
development that is often supposed. Gallman's investigation of the
status of women and blacks, for example, shows that wartime gains,
if significant for a few, were on the whole decidedly modest. And
while "total war" came to the battlefield in a frightening manner,
its impact on the Northern home front was far less certain.
American Ways Series."
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