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Home front : daily life in the Civil War North by Peter John Brownlee; Sarah Burns; Diane Dillon; Daniel Greene; Scott Manning Stevens; Adam Goodheart; Terra Foundation for American Art,; Newberry Library is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Home front : daily life in the Civil War North about?

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as a battle over the future of slavery, often focusing on Lincoln’s determination to save the Union, or highlighting the brutality of brother fighting brother. Battles and battlefields occupy us, too: Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg all conjure up images of desolate landscapes strewn with war dead. Yet the frontlines were not the only landscapes of the war. Countless civilians saw their daily lives upended while the entire nation suffered. Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North reveals this side of the war as it happened, comprehensively examining the visual culture of the Northern home front. Through contributions from leading scholars from across the humanities, we discover how the war influenced household economies and the cotton economy; how the absence of young men from the home changed daily life; how war relief work linked home fronts and battle fronts; why Indians on the frontier were pushed out of the riven nation’s co

Author

Peter John Brownlee; Sarah Burns; Diane Dillon; Daniel Greene; Scott Manning Stevens; Adam Goodheart; Terra Foundation for American Art,; Newberry Library

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226061856

Subjects

History, Art, Arts