Northerners at war
Subtitle: reflections on the Civil War home front
By: J. Matthew Gallman.
Publisher: Kent State University Press; The Kent State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606350454
Subjects: Dickinson, Anna E. -- 1842-1932; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Voluntarism in wartime: Philadelphia's Great Central Fair; title: Preserving the peace: order and disorder in Civil War Philadelphia; title: Gettysburg's Gettysburg: what the battle did to the borough (with Susan Baker); title: Urban history and the American Civil War; title: The Civil War economy: a modern view (with Stanley L. Engerman); title: Entrepreneurial experiences in the Civil War: evidence from Philadelphia; title: "An inspiration to work": Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, public orator; title: Anna Dickinson, America's Joan of Arc: public discourse and gendered rhetoric during the Civil War; title: "Touched with fire?": two Philadelphia novelists remember the Civil War; title: Is the war ended? Anna Dickinson and the election of 1872; title: "In your hands that musket means liberty": African American soliders and the Battle of Olustee.