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Title:

Reconfiguring the Union : Civil War transformations / edited by Iwan W. Morgan and Philip John Davies.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
United States--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
Federal government--United States--History--19th century.
States' rights (American politics)--History--19th century.
Political culture--United States.

Other Authors:

Morgan, Iwan W., editor of compilation. editor of compilation.
Davies, Philip, 1948- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Reconfiguring the Union : a long history of civil war transformations / Iwan Morgan -- Lincoln and emancipation : the lessons of the letter to Horace Greeley / Richard Carwardine -- Conservatism, transformation, and the war for the Union / Adam I.P. Smith -- Freedpeople, politics, and the state in Civil War America / Erik Mathisen -- The military significance of the 1864 presidential election / Brian Holden Reid -- 'In union there is strength' : city-building and nation-building in civil-war era Philadelphia, 1844-1865 / Andrew Heath -- 'There will be blood' : the Civil War and the birth of the oil industry / Matthew Shaw -- 'Faugh a ballagh!' (clear the way) : the Irish and the American Civil War / David Gleason -- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation : a propaganda tool for the enemy / Amanda Foreman -- Ordeal of the Union : Alan Nevins, the Civil War centennial, and the civil rights struggles of the 1960s / Robert Cook -- Glory, glory : Hollywood's consensus memory of the Civil War / Jenny Barrett.

Series:

Studies of the Americas

ISBN:

1137336471 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781137336477 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)828626832

LCCN:

2013005941

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)