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Informationen zum Autor Lacy Ford is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the recipient of many awards in American and Southern history including the 1999 NEH Fellowship Award and the Francis B. Simkins prize for his book Origins of Southern Radicalism (1988). Klappentext A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field.* An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction* Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field* Includes discussions on scholarly advances in U.S. Civil War history. Zusammenfassung A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field. * An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the contributors vii Introduction: A Civil War in the Age of Capital 1 Lacy K. Ford Part I: Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the Civil War 1 Slavery and the Union, 1789-1833 25 Douglas R. Egerton 2 The Market Revolution 41 John Larson 3 Slavery and the Old South 60 Larry Hudson 4 Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South 75 Charles C. Bolton 5 Humanitarian Reform and Antislavery 94 James B. Stewart 6 Women in the Antebellum North 112 Teresa Murphy 7 Women in the Old South 128 Michele Gillespie 8 The Road to Secession 152 Michael Morrison 9 The Republican Triumph 167 John Ashworth 10 And the War Came 183 Daniel Crofts Part II: The Civil War and American Society 11 Saving the Union 203 Kevin Gannon 12 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Union 223 Carol Reardon 13 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Confederacy 239 Steven Woodworth 14 The Confederate Home Front 258 Mary DeCredico 15 Emancipation 277 Joseph P. Reidy Part III: Reconstruction and the New Nation 16 Defining Reconstruction 299 O. Vernon Burton, David Herr, and Matthew Cheney 17 The Politics of Reconstruction 323 Michael Perman 18 The Economics of Reconstruction 342 Peter A. Coclanis and Scott Marler 19 Southern Labor and Reconstruction 366 R. Tracy McKenzie 20 Northern Women during the Age of Emancipation 386 Nina Silber 21 Southern Women during the Age of Emancipation 403 Jeannie Whayne 22 The Legacy of Confederate Defeat 423 Gaines M. Foster 23 Reconstruction and the Nation 447 Heather Richardson Bibliography 468 Index 504 ...