Timothy R Mahoney

From Hometown to Battlefield in the Civil War Era

Middle Class Life in Midwest America

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Produktbeschreibung

Mahoney examines how the middle class from across the great West were transformed by years of recession and civil war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781107122697
• ISBN-10: 1107122694
• Artikelnr.: 43706399

Autorenporträt

Timothy R. Mahoney is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest (Cambridge, 1990) and Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West (Cambridge, 1999). Collectively, this trilogy of books tells a comprehensive story of the transformations of the Midwest and nineteenth-century American society in general.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Hometown: 1. 'You are home folk' - hometown and the middle class; 2. 'What will become of our town?' - the rise and fall of the booster ethos, 1856
60; 3. 'Hard
and revolutionary times' - the crisis of the middle class, 1858
61; 4. 'God bless the good old town' - constructing trans-local communities in the 1850s; Part II. Battlefield: 5. 'It is all the talk in town' - the booster ethos and struggle for Main Street, 1860
1; 6. 'Almost sacred and hallowed ground' - civil war as spatial narrative; 7. 'The boys of 61' - the social order of company and regiment; 8. 'The 'inner' and 'outer' man' - encountering 'military ways and means'; 9. 'Civil war in our midst' - waging war at home and abroad, 1862
5; Epilogue - 'scattering to the four ends of the Earth' - 'the old town' and the middle class.