{"product_id":"so-conceived-and-so-dedicated-9780823264483","title":"So Conceived and So Dedicated","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of scholarly essays blends intellectual with social and cultural history to provide fresh insights into life in the Civil War Era North. Contributors offer interpretations for those interested in the study of medicine, law, race, ethnicity and identity, art, nationalism, and education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Civil War and Reconstruction has been called the second American revolution, and this fascinating collection reminds us that this era revolutionized American thought and culture. From medicine to education, from perception to memory, So Conceived and So Dedicated opens our eyes and minds to how Americans at the time saw and thought about what the Civil War meant to them.\" -- -Michael Green University of Nevada, Las Vegas \"A study bringing together new work on the Civil War's impact on intellectual life in the North is long overdue. Foote and Wongsrichanalai have produced one of those rare edited collections: timely, coherent, intellectually satisfying, and filled with field-defining research. It is wonderful to see this topic finally covered in such fascinating and diverse ways.\" -- -Frances Clarke University of Sydney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents      Foreword by Joan Waugh 000       \"So Conceived and So Dedicated\": Historians and Intellectual Life in the Civil War Era      Lorien Foote 000      U.S. Sanitary Commission Physicians and the Transformation of American Health Care      Kathryn Shively Meier 000      Civil War Cybernetics: Medicine, Modernity, and the Intellectual Mechanics of Union      Susan-Mary Grant 000      To Save the Afflicted Union: Race, Civic Health, and the Sanitary Front      Richard Newman 000      John Codman Ropes: A Lawyer's Historian      Richard F. Miller 000      Save a School to Save a Nation: Faculty Responses to the Civil War at Midwestern Universities      Julie Mujic 000      Lessons of War: Three Civil War Veterans and the Goals of Post-War Education      Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai 000      \"The Rebels' Last Device\": Theodore R. Davis and Faithful Representations of Black Soldiers During the Civil War      Niki Lefebvre 000      For Their Adopted Home: Native Northerners in the South During the Secession Crisis      David Zimring 000      Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the Meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: The Questions of Nationalism, Citizenship, and Human Rights      Christian G. Samito 000      \"This most unholy and destructive war\": Catholic Intellectuals and the Limits of Catholic Patriotism      William Kurtz 000       Notes 000      List of Contributors 000      Index 000","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528015880535,"sku":"9780823264483","price":46.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823264483.jpg?v=1731870079","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/so-conceived-and-so-dedicated-9780823264483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}