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Contested Loyalty - Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North (Hardcover)
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Contested Loyalty - Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North (Hardcover)
Series: The North's Civil War
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Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with
frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in
newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on
flags, broadsides, and prints, was written into diaries and letters
and the stationary they appeared on, and even found its way into
sermons. Its ubiquity suggests that loyalty was an important
concept...but what did it mean to those who used it? Contested
Loyalty examines the significance of loyalty across fault lines of
gender, social class, and education, race and ethnicity, and
political or religious affiliation. These differing vantage points
reveal the complicated ways in which loyalties were defined,
prioritized, acted upon, and related. While most of the scholarly
work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity
and Confederate nationhood, the essays in Contested Loyalty examine
the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the north.
Essays explore the limitations and incomplete nature of national
loyalty and how disparate groups struggled to control its meaning.
The authors move beyond the narrow partisan debate over Democratic
dissent to examine other challenges to and competing
interpretations of national loyalty. Today's leading and emerging
scholars examine loyalty through: the frame of politics at the
state and national level; the viewpoints of college educated men as
well as the women they courted; the attitudes of northern
Protestant churches on issues of patriotism and loyalty; working
class men and women in military industries; how employers could use
the language of loyalty to take away the rights of workers; and the
meaning of loyalty in contexts of race and ethnicity. The Union
cause was a powerful ideology committing millions of citizens, in
the ranks and at home, to a long and bloody war. But loyalty to the
Union cause imperfectly explains how citizens reacted to the
traumas of war or the ways in which conflicting loyalties played
out in everyday life. The essays in this collection point us down
the path of greater understanding.
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