Bøger af J. Matthew Gallman

Charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. The book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

Examining the breadth of Northern popular culture, J. Matthew Gallman offers a dramatic reconsideration of how the Union's civilians understood the meaning of duty and citizenship in wartime. Gallman shows how thousands of authors, artists, and readers together created a new set of rules for navigating life in a nation at war.

During the Irish famine 2,000,000 Irish men and women fled their homeland to settle in large British and American cities already wrestling complex urban problems. This book examines how the cities of Liverpool and Philadelphia met the challenge of this influx of immigrants.

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. Civil War History Readers reintroduce the most influential articles published in the journal. In this fourth volume of the series, editor J. Matthew Gallman includes sixteen pioneering essays that examine the Civil War home front.

Includes essays on the Northern home front. This title brings together essays on the economic, social, and domestic aspects of life in the North during the Civil War. It tackles a range of Civil War home front topics - from urban violence and Gettysburg's wartime history to entrepreneurial endeavors and the war's economic impact.

A pioneering study of a Northern city during the Civil War that challenges the long-held belief that the War was a "second American Revolution."