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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field. * An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S.
Trade Review" A recent and welcome addition to the Blackwell Companions to American History series. . . . The choice of Lacy Ford to edit this volume was an excellent one. Ford has assembled a stellar team of scholars . . . Most of the essays are certain to become essential reading for specialists but are also accessible to nonspecialists . . . . [T]his volume belongs on the 'must-read' shelf of scholars of the Civil War and Reconstruction as well as those of nineteenth-century southern and U.S. history."
Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsNotes on the contributors vii
Introduction: A Civil War in the Age of Capital 1
Lacy K. Ford
Part I: Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the Civil War
1 Slavery and the Union, 1789–1833 25
Douglas R. Egerton
2 The Market Revolution 41
John Larson
3 Slavery and the Old South 60
Larry Hudson
4 Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South 75
Charles C. Bolton
5 Humanitarian Reform and Antislavery 94
James B. Stewart
6 Women in the Antebellum North 112
Teresa Murphy
7 Women in the Old South 128
Michele Gillespie
8 The Road to Secession 152
Michael Morrison
9 The Republican Triumph 167
John Ashworth
10 And the War Came 183
Daniel Crofts
Part II: The Civil War and American Society
11 Saving the Union 203
Kevin Gannon
12 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Union 223
Carol Reardon
13 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Confederacy 239
Steven Woodworth
14 The Confederate Home Front 258
Mary DeCredico
15 Emancipation 277
Joseph P. Reidy
Part III: Reconstruction and the New Nation
16 Defining Reconstruction 299
O. Vernon Burton, David Herr, and Matthew Cheney
17 The Politics of Reconstruction 323
Michael Perman
18 The Economics of Reconstruction 342
Peter A. Coclanis and Scott Marler
19 Southern Labor and Reconstruction 366
R. Tracy McKenzie
20 Northern Women during the Age of Emancipation 386
Nina Silber
21 Southern Women during the Age of Emancipation 403
Jeannie Whayne
22 The Legacy of Confederate Defeat 423
Gaines M. Foster
23 Reconstruction and the Nation 447
Heather Richardson
Bibliography 468
Index 504
