The Northern Home Front during the Civil War (Reflections on the Civil War Era)

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War (Reflections on the Civil War Era)
by: Paul A. Cimbala(Author),Randall M. Miller(Author)
Publisher: Praeger
Publication Date: 16 Feb. 2017
Language: English
Print Length: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 0313352909
ISBN-13: 9780313352904
Book Description
This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions.The Northern Home Front during the Civil War provides the first extensive treatment of the northern home front mobilizing for war in two decades. It collates a vast and growing scholarship on the many aspects of a citizenship organizing for and against war. The text focuses attention on the roles of women, blacks, immigrants, and other individuals who typically fall outside of scrutiny in studies of American war-making society, and provides new information on subjects such as raising money for war, civil liberties in wartime, the role of returning soldiers in society, religion, relief work, popular culture, and building support for the cause of the Union and freedom.Organized topically, the book covers the geographic breadth of the diverse northern home fronts during the Civil War. The chapters supply self-contained studies of specific aspects of life, work, relief, home life, religion, and political affairs, to name only a few. This clearly written and immensely readable book reveals the key moments and gradual developments over time that influenced northerners’ understanding of, participation in, and reactions to the costs and promise of a great civil war.

About the Author

Review Updated scholarship and an excellent bibliographic essay make the current volume worth the price…. In all, a worthwhile purchase, handsomely produced and well written. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. –Choice About the Author Paul A. Cimbala is professor of history at Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, NY.Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren ’50 Sesquicentennial Chair and professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA.