Opening book details…
Can I read Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America (UnCivil Wars Ser.) on EtoBox?
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America (UnCivil Wars Ser.) by James Marten; Caroline E. Janney; Amanda Brickell Bellows; Crompton Burton; Kevin Caprice; Shae Cox; Barbara Gannon; Edward Harcourt; Anna Gibson Holloway; Jonathan Jones; Margaret Malinick; John Neff; Paul Ringel; David Thomson; Natalie Sweet; Jonathan W. White; Amanda Bellows is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America (UnCivil Wars Ser.) about?
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for veterans rather than soldiers; publishing houses built subscription bases by tapping into wartime loyalties; while old and young alike found endless sources of entertainment that harkened back to the war. Moving beyond the discussions of how Civil War memory shaped politics and race relations, the essays assembled by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney provide a new framework for examining the intersections of material culture, consumerism, and contested memory in the everyday lives of late nineteenth-century Americans. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War was remembered and memorialized. Taken together, these essays trace the ways the buying and selling of the Civil War shaped Americans’ thinking about the conflict, making an important contribution to scholarship on Civil War memory and extending our understanding of subjects as
Who reads Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America (UnCivil Wars Ser.)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Marten; Caroline E. Janney; Amanda Brickell Bellows; Crompton Burton; Kevin Caprice; Shae Cox; Barbara Gannon; Edward Harcourt; Anna Gibson Holloway; Jonathan Jones; Margaret Malinick; John Neff; Paul Ringel; David Thomson; Natalie Sweet; Jonathan W. White; Amanda Bellows
- Publisher
- The University of Georgia Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780820359663
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
More by James Marten; Caroline E. Janney; Amanda Brickell Bellows; Crompton Burton; Kevin Caprice; Shae Cox; Barbara Gannon; Edward Harcourt; Anna Gibson Holloway; Jonathan Jones; Margaret Malinick; John Neff; Paul Ringel; David Thomson; Natalie Sweet; Jonathan W. White; Amanda Bellows
Similar books
- Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (UnCivil Wars Ser.) — edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher (2015)
- Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (UnCivil Wars Ser.) — Sarah E Handley-Cousins (2019)
- America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (UnCivil Wars Ser.) — James Alan Marten (2014)
- Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Civil War America) — James Alan Marten (2011)
- Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War (UnCivil Wars Ser.) — American Civil War (1861-1865); United States; United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Social aspects; United States / Social conditions / To 1865; Frank, Lisa Tendrich; Whites, LeeAnn (2020)
- The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West (UnCivil Wars Ser.) — Matthew Hulbert, Stephen Berry, Amy Taylor (2016)