A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865
by Phillip Shaw Paludan
Modern War Studies (1988), The New American Nation (1.12)
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"A People's Contest" explores the interrelationships between the two great events of nineteenth-century America: the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution. It describes how the North redefined itself as a modern nation through the war and the vast economic and social changes that accompanied it. Much of the story is told through the lives and writings of individuals, many of them little known and some -- Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson -- familiar to us all. The book show more weaves together insights drawn from literature, economics, diplomacy, law, and religion to place the war in the context of the larger transformations of the age and show why it remains the nation's most compelling experience. -- From publisher's description. show lessTags
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A thoughtful, scholarly, and highly readable survey of the changes wrought in northern society by the twin engines of Civil War and industrialization. Paludan (Hist./Univ. of Kansas) has put aside linearity for the sake of breadth and depth, and the result is a rich portrait of a society riding a breaking wave of change.
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- A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865
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- American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Battle of Shiloh (1862-04-06 | 1862-04-07)
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