Reconfiguring the Union [electronic resource] : Civil War Transformations /
Morgan, I.editor.
Davies, P.editor.
From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War not only changed the moral meaning of the Union, it changed what the Union stood for in political, economic, and transnational terms. This volume examines the transformations the Civil War brought to the American Union as a politico-constitutional, social, and economic system. It explores how the war changed the meaning of the Union with regard to the supremacy of the federal government over the states, the right of secession, the rights of citizenship, and the political balance between the union's various sections. It further considers the effect of the war on international and transnational perceptions of the United States. Finally, it considers how historical memory has shaped the legacy of the Civil War in the last 150 years.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Reconfiguring the Union: A Long History of Civil War Transformations; Chapter 2 Lincoln and Emancipation: The Lessons of the Letter to Horace Greeley; Chapter 3 Conservatism, Transformation, and the War for the Union; Chapter 4 Freedpeople, Politics, and the State in Civil War America; Chapter 5 The Military Significance of the 1864 Presidential Election; Chapter 6 "In Union There Is Strength": City-Building and Nation-Building in Civil War-Era Philadelphia, 1844-1865
Chapter 7 "There Will Be Blood": The Civil War and the Birth of the Oil IndustryChapter 8 "Faugh a Ballagh!" (Clear the Way): The Irish and the American Civil War; Chapter 9 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: A Propaganda Tool for the Enemy?; Chapter 10 Ordeal of the Union: Allan Nevins, the Civil War Centennial, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1960s; Chapter 11 Glory, Glory: Hollywood's Consensus Memory of the American Civil War; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War not only changed the moral meaning of the Union, it changed what the Union stood for in political, economic, and transnational terms. This volume examines the transformations the Civil War brought to the American Union as a politico-constitutional, social, and economic system. It explores how the war changed the meaning of the Union with regard to the supremacy of the federal government over the states, the right of secession, the rights of citizenship, and the political balance between the union's various sections. It further considers the effect of the war on international and transnational perceptions of the United States. Finally, it considers how historical memory has shaped the legacy of the Civil War in the last 150 years.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
America—History.
Social history.
Political science.
US History.
Modern History.
History of the Americas.
Social History.
Political Science.