![]() | Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War Subjects: Families -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Households -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Social aspects; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865; Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They explore how households influenced Confederate and Union military strategy, the motivations of soldiers and civilians, and the occupation of captured cities, as well as the experiences of Native Americans, women, children, freedpeople, injured veterans, and others. The result is a unique and much needed approach to the study of the Civil War. Lisa Tendrich Frank (Editor) LISA TENDRICH FRANK is a historian, editor, and writer. She is the author of The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's March and editor or coeditor of several volumes, including Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown . LeeAnn Whites (Editor) LEEANN WHITES is the editor of Ohio Valley History and professor emerita of history at the University of Missouri. She is the author of The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender (Georgia) and Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South and coeditor of Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War and Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence. |
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