Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War

by David S. Heidler

Book Overview

While soldiers were off fighting on the fields of war, civilians on the home front fought their own daily struggles, sometimes removed from the violence but often enough from deep within the maelstrom of conflict. Chapters provide readers with an excellent, detailed description of how women, children, slaves, and Native Americans coped with privation and looming threat, and how they often used, or tried to use, periods of turmoil to their own advantage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313335265
• ISBN13: 9780313335266
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"