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Author:

Phillips, Christopher, 1959 November 1- author.

Title:

The rivers ran backward : the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border / Christopher Phillips.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xviii, 505 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Border States (U.S. Civil War)
Middle West--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
Regionalism--Border States.
Regionalism--Middle West--History--19th century.
Group identity--Border States.
Group identity--Middle West--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-474) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: white salt, black servitude -- White flows the river: freedom and unfreedom in the early national west -- Babel: changed persistence on slavery's borderland -- The ten year war: sectional politics in a dividing region -- No north, no south, no east, no west: the fiction of the wartime middle ground -- Netherworld of war: civilians, soldiers, and the dominion of war -- Bitter harvest: emancipation and the politics of loyalty -- Shadow wars: the crucible of social violence -- North star, southern cross: the politics of irreconciliation -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

0195187237
9780195187236

OCLC:

(OCoLC)936429914

LCCN:

2015042282

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)