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A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction
Lacy Ford (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21551-6
Hardcover
528 pages
February 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on the Contributors.

Introduction: A Civil War in the Age of Capital.

Lacy K. Ford.

Part I: Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the Civil War.

1. Slavery and the Union, 1789-1833.

Douglas Egerton (Le Moyne College).

2. The Market Revolution.

John Larson (Purdue University).

3. Slavery and the Old South.

Larry Hudson (University of Rochester).

4. Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South.

Charles Bolton (University of Southern Mississippi).

5. Humanitarian Reform and Antislavery.

James B. Stewart (Macalester College).

6. Women in the Antebellum North.

Teresa Murphy (George Washington University).

7. Women in the Old South.

Michelle Gillespie (Wake Forest University).

8. The Road to Secession.

Michael Morrison (Purdue University).

9. The Republican Triumph.

John Ashworth (University of Nottingham).

10. And The War Came.

Daniel Crofts (College of New Jersey).

Part II: The Civil War and American Society.

11. Saving the Union.

Kevin Gannon (Grand View College).

12. Civil War Military Campaigns: The Union.

Carol Reardon (Penn State University).

13. Civil War Military Campaigns: The Confederacy.

Steven Woodworth (Texas Christian University).

14. The Confederate Homefront.

Mary DeCredico (U.S. Naval Academy).

15. Emancipation.

Joseph P. Reidy (Howard University).

Part III: Reconstruction and the New Nation.

16. Defining Reconstruction.

O. Vernon Burton(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), David Herr (St. Andrews Presbyterian College), and Matthew Chaney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

17. The Politics of Reconstruction.

Michael Perman (University of Illinois at Chicago).

18. The Economics of Reconstruction.

Peter A. Coclanis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Scott Marler (Rice University).

19. Southern Labor and Reconstruction.

Tracy MacKenzie (University of Washington).

20. Northern Women During the Age of Emancipation.

Nina Silber (Boston University).

21. Southern Women During the Age of Emancipation.

Jeannie Whayne (University of Arkansas).

22. The Legacy of Confederate Defeat.

Gaines M. Foster (Louisiana State University).

23. Reconstruction and the Nation.

Heather Richardson.

Bibliography.

Index