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Informationen zum Autor PAUL A. CIMBALA is Professor of History, Fordham University, and author of a number of books, including Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870 , Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front (with Randall M. Miller),and Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (with Robert F. Himmelberg). Randall M. Miller is professor of history at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He holds a PhD from Ohio State University and has published more than 20 books and over 80 articles on topics as varied as race and slavery, politics, religion, media culture, urban affairs, immigration and ethnicity, the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and regional history. He is also the series editor for two Greenwood Press book series: the 26-volume series, Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century, and the 11-volume (to date) series, Major Issues in American History. He is also set editor for the 4-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America . Klappentext This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions. The Northern Home Front during the Civil War provides the first extensive treatment of the northern home front mobilizing for war in two decades. It collates a vast and growing scholarship on the many aspects of a citizenship organizing for and against war. The text focuses attention on the roles of women, blacks, immigrants, and other individuals who typically fall outside of scrutiny in studies of American war-making society, and provides new information on subjects such as raising money for war, civil liberties in wartime, the role of returning soldiers in society, religion, relief work, popular culture, and building support for the cause of the Union and freedom.Organized topically, the book covers the geographic breadth of the diverse northern home fronts during the Civil War. The chapters supply self-contained studies of specific aspects of life, work, relief, home life, religion, and political affairs, to name only a few. This clearly written and immensely readable book reveals the key moments and gradual developments over time that influenced northerners' understanding of, participation in, and reactions to the costs and promise of a great civil war. Inhaltsverzeichnis During four years of Civil War, most Northerners conducted their lives as they had before Confederate forces had fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. Mothers nursed sick children, families earned their livelihoods, and youngsters attended school. Young adults did not give up courting, and men and women did not give up their amusements. Storekeepers tended to their customers and stocked their shelves. Politicians ran for office, listened to the concerns of their constituents, and generally conducted themselves as they had and always will, guided in their actions by a mixture of civic duty and self-interest. Local authorities still had to deal with chicken thieves and other petty criminals. Battles in Virginia, Tennessee, and elsewhere did not keep ministers and priests from worrying about the souls of their congregations and the roofs of their churches. Indeed, in April 1864, Irvine Masters, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, admitted, as the city continued to prosper, it had "not directly felt the shock of war." Despite such aspects of normality, the war insinuated itself into all of these activities and thus the lives of even the most unaware people living in the free states of the North. In August 1861, Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that the war will "engulf us all," and "no preoccupation can exclude, & no hermitage hide us." That same ...
