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  • - North Carolina's Civil War Refugee Crisis
    af David Silkenat
    372,95 - 587,95 kr.

    Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organisations. For anyone seeking context to current refugee crises, Driven from Home has much to say.

  • - How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West
    af Matthew C. Hulbert
    362,95 - 1.286,95 kr.

    In the first accounting of its kind, Matthew Christopher Hulbert's book analyzes the cultural politics behind how Americans have remembered, misremembered, and re-remembered guerrilla warfare.

  • - Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
    af Jim Jordan
    274,95 kr.

    In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of US law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar's letters from the 1850s, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities.

  • - The Civil War in Word and Image
     
    382,95 kr.

    Brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War.

  • - How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War
     
    1.180,95 kr.

    Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household.

  • - Disrupting the History of Emancipation
     
    1.162,95 kr.

    This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.

  • - Disrupting the History of Emancipation
     
    322,95 kr.

    This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.

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    436,95 kr.

    What can consumerism and material culture teach us about how ordinary Americans remembered their Civil War? This book explores ways in which Americans remembered the war in their everyday lives. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War was remembered and memorialized.

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    1.637,95 kr.

    What can consumerism and material culture teach us about how ordinary Americans remembered their Civil War? This book explores ways in which Americans remembered the war in their everyday lives. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War was remembered and memorialized.

  • - Disability in the Civil War North
    af Sarah Handley-Cousins
    381,95 kr.

    In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins expands our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and both physical and mental conditions.

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