Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction by Marts A. Vinovskis
- 1 Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculations
- 2 Community and War: The Civil War Experience of Two New Hampshire Towns
- 3 The Northern Soldier and His Community
- 4 Voluntarism in Wartime: Philadelphia's Great Central Fair
- 5 The Civil War and Municipal Government in Chicago
- 6 Who Joined the Grand Army? Three Case Studies in the Construction of Union Veteranhood, 1866–1900
- 7 “Such Is the Price We Pay”: American Widows and the Civil War Pension System
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction by Marts A. Vinovskis
- 1 Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculations
- 2 Community and War: The Civil War Experience of Two New Hampshire Towns
- 3 The Northern Soldier and His Community
- 4 Voluntarism in Wartime: Philadelphia's Great Central Fair
- 5 The Civil War and Municipal Government in Chicago
- 6 Who Joined the Grand Army? Three Case Studies in the Construction of Union Veteranhood, 1866–1900
- 7 “Such Is the Price We Pay”: American Widows and the Civil War Pension System
- Index
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- Toward a Social History of the American Civil WarExploratory Essays, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990