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Title:

War matters : material culture in the Civil War era / edited by Joan E. Cashin.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

263 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American Civil War (1861-1865)
United States--Antiquities.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities.
Material culture--United States.
Antiquities.
Material culture.
United States.
1861-1865
History.

Other Authors:

Cashin, Joan E., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The stuff of defeat: material culture and the downfall of Jefferson Davis / Yael A. Sternhell. 10. John Brown's Pikes: assembling the future in antebellum America / Jason Phillips -- 2. Relics from two wars: Revolutionary artifacts in the Civil War era / Joan E. Cashin -- 3. Nature as material culture: Antietam National Battlefield / Lisa M. Brady and Timothy Silver -- 4. Saved by a testament: books as shields among Union and Confederate soldiers / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- 5. The material culture of weapons in the Civil War / Earl J. Hess -- 6. Scabrous matters: spurious vaccinations in the Confederacy / Robert D. Hicks -- 7. Fitted up for freedom: the material culture of refugee relief / Sarah Jones Weicksel -- 8. There's no place like home: gender, family, and the Confederate Alabama household / Victoria E. Ott -- 9. The trophies of victory and the relics of defeat: returning home in the spring of 1865 / Peter S. Carmichael -- 10. The stuff of defeat: material culture and the downfall of Jefferson Davis / Yael A. Sternhell.

ISBN:

1469643200
9781469643205
1469643197
9781469643199

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1029477025

LCCN:

2018012533

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)