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Author:   Catherine Clinton (Weissman Visiting Professor, Weissman Visiting Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.423kg
ISBN:  

9780195136838

ISBN 10:   0195136837
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 August 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1: Michael P. Johnson: Looking for Lost Kin: Efforts to Reunite Freed Families after Emancipation 2: Michelle A. Krowl: For Better of Worse: Black Families and 'the State' in Civil War Virginia 3: Donald R. Shaffer: In the Shadow of the Old Constitution: Black Civil War Veterans and the Persistence of Slave Marriage Customs 4: Amy E. Murrell: ""Of Necessity and Public Benefit"": Southern Families and their Appeals for Protection 5: Judith Lee Hunt: ""High with Courage and Hope"": The Middleton Family's Civil War 6: E. Susan Barber: ""The White Wings of Eros"": Courtship and Marriage in Confederate Richmond 7: Jennifer Lynn Gross: ""Good Angels"": Confederate Widows in Virginia 8: Daniel W. Stowell: ""A Family of Women and Children"": The Fains of East Tennessee during Wartime 9: Henry Walker: Power, Sex, and Gender Roles: The Transformation of an Alabama Planter Family during the Civil War 10: Lauren F. Winner: Taking up the Cross: Conversion among Black and White Jews in the Civil War South 11: Anne J. Bailey: In the Far Corner of the Confederacy: A Question of Conscience for German-Speaking Texans 12: Ted Ownby: Patriarchy in the World Where There is No Parting?: Power Relations in Confederate Heaven"

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A welcome addition to the fields of Civil War and family history. The diversity of subjects will give the reader an overview of the war's effect on family life throughout the South. --Kentucky Historical Society The best of the essays offer inventive and perceptive alalyses informed by a deep humanity. --Civil War History The best of the essays offer inventive and perceptive analyses informed by a deep humanity. --Civil War History

The quality of work is uniformly excellent. This collection will prove useful to a wide variety of scholars. It will appeal especially to those working on the Civil War, the family, gender relations or African American studies. Journal of American Studies Catherine Clinton has brought together a fine collection of twelve essays exploring the diverse and multiple experiences of the war years and their legacy in the American South ... solidly researched and welcome contributions to the new social history of the Civil War. American Studies Today

Author Information

Catherine Clinton is a historian of southern history, women's history, and the American Civil War. She is currently Weissman Visiting Professor of History, Baruch College, City University of New York.

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