Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820356344
• ISBN13: 9780820356341
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"