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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of the People

Aaron Sheehan-Dean editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:31st Oct '19

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This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual experiences of Americans during and after the Civil War.

This volume considers how the Civil War reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. It analyzes the ways that participants made sense of the conflict and its impact on their lives, uncovering how the war changed attitudes about gender, religion, ethnicity, and race.This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. The Civil War engendered an existential crisis more profound even than the changes of the previous decades. Its duration, scale, and intensity drove Americans to question how they understood themselves as people. The chapters in the third volume distinguish the varied impacts of the conflict in different places on people's sense of themselves. Focusing on particular groups within the war, including soldiers, families, refugees, enslaved people, and black soldiers, the chapters cover a broad range of ways that participants made sense of the conflict as well as how the war changed their attitudes about gender, religion, ethnicity, and race. The volume concludes with a series of essays evaluating the ways Americans have memorialized and remembered the Civil War in art, literature, film, and public life.

ISBN: 9781107154544

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 28mm

Weight: 1000g

532 pages