The Great Task Remaining Before Us

Cimbala, Paul A. & Miller, Randall M. [editors]

ISBN 10: 0823232034 / ISBN 13: 9780823232031

Editore: Fordham University Press, New York, 2010

Riguardo questo articolo

Slight thumbing crease throughout.; Inscribed by Miller.; 8vo; 268 pages.

Codice articolo 20046

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: The Great Task Remaining Before Us
• Editore: Fordham University Press, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0823232034
• ISBN 13: 9780823232031
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war’s end. In doing so, it shows that “the war” did not actually end with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln’s assassination in Washington. As the contributors show, major issues remained, including defining “freedom”; rebuilding the South; integrating women and blacks into postwar society, culture, and polities; deciding the place of the military in public life; demobilizing or redeploying soldiers; organizing a
new party system; and determining the scope and meanings of “union.”

Informazioni sugli autori

Paul A. Cimbala is Professor of History at Fordham University and editor of the Press's series The North's Civil War and Reconstructing America.

Randall M. Miller is Professor of History and holder of the William Dirk Warren Sesquicentennial Chair at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia.

Paul A. Cimbala is Professor of History at Fordham University and editor of the Press’s series The North’s Civil War and Reconstructing America.

Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren ’05 Sesquicentennial Chair and Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University. He is author or editor of numerous books. Among his books related to the Civil War are, as coeditor, Religion and the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1998), and The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). His most recent book, coauthored with Paul Cimbala, is The Northern Home Front in the Civil War (Praeger, 2012).

Paul A. Cimbala is Professor of History at Fordham University and editor of the Press's series The North's Civil War and Reconstructing America.
Randall M. Miller is Professor of History and holder of the William Dirk Warren Sesquicentennial Chair at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia.