Böcker av J. Matthew Gallman

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. Civil War History Readers reintroduce the most influential articles published in the journal. In this fourth volume of the series, editor J. Matthew Gallman includes sixteen pioneering essays that examine the Civil War home front.

Includes essays on the Northern home front. This title brings together essays on the economic, social, and domestic aspects of life in the North during the Civil War. It tackles a range of Civil War home front topics - from urban violence and Gettysburg's wartime history to entrepreneurial endeavors and the war's economic impact.