War matters : material culture in the Civil War era / edited by Joan E. Cashin.

Other author Cashin, Joan E., editor.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Descriptionpages cm
Subjects

Contents John Brown's Pikes: assembling the future in antebellum America / Jason Phillips -- Relics from two wars: Revolutionary artifacts in the Civil War era / Joan E. Cashin -- Nature as material culture: Antietam National Battlefield / Lisa M. Brady and Timothy Silver -- Saved by a testament: books as shields among Union and Confederate soldiers / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- The material culture of weapons in the Civil War / Earl J. Hess -- Scabrous matters: spurious vaccinations in the Confederacy / Robert D. Hicks -- Fitted up for freedom: the material culture of refugee relief / Sarah Jones Weicksel -- There's no place like home: gender, family, and the Confederate Alabama household / Victoria E. Ott -- The trophies of victory and the relics of defeat: returning home in the spring of 1865 / Peter S. Carmichael -- The stuff of defeat: material culture and the downfall of Jefferson Davis / Yael A. Sternhell.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2018012533
ISBN9781469643199 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469643197
ISBN9781469643205 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469643200
ISBN(ebook)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E646.5 .W36 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold