A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction

A COMPANION TO THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: A Civil War in the Age of Capital......Page 13
Part I Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the Civil War......Page 35
1 Slavery and the Union, 1789–1833......Page 37
2 The Market Revolution......Page 53
3 Slavery and the Old South......Page 72
4 Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South......Page 87
5 Humanitarian Reform and Antislavery......Page 106
6 Women in the Antebellum North......Page 124
7 Women in the Old South......Page 140
8 The Road to Secession......Page 164
9 The Republican Triumph......Page 179
10 And the War Came......Page 195
Part II The Civil War and American Society......Page 213
11 Saving the Union......Page 215
12 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Union......Page 235
13 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Confederacy......Page 251
14 The Confederate Home Front......Page 270
15 Emancipation......Page 289
Part III Reconstruction and the New Nation......Page 309
16 Defining Reconstruction......Page 311
17 The Politics of Reconstruction......Page 335
18 The Economics of Reconstruction......Page 354
19 Southern Labor and Reconstruction......Page 378
20 Northern Women during the Age of Emancipation......Page 398
21 Southern Women during the Age of Emancipation......Page 415
22 The Legacy of Confederate Defeat......Page 435
23 Reconstruction and the Nation......Page 459
Bibliography......Page 480
Index......Page 516