{"product_id":"a-generation-at-war-the-civil-war-era-in-a-northern-community-paperback-softback-9780700635153","title":"A Generation at War; The Civil War Era in a Northern Community (Paperback \/ softback) 9780700635153","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Generation at War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Civil War Era in a Northern Community\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicole Etcheson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780700635153\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 February 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With keen insight, Etcheson provides a thoughtful, rewarding, and essential contribution to the study of how the Civil War and Reconstruction changed the North. . . . A remarkable achievement, comprehensively researched and wonderfully readable.\"—Orville Vernon Burton, author \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEtcheson’s deep analysis of a Northern home-front community brings to life ordinary and extraordinary people as they responded to America’s greatest crisis.\"—James H. Madison, author of \u003ci\u003eA Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is remarkably engaging on a personal level, and, historically, a tour de force.\"—Douglas L. Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eLincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner: Avery O. Craven Award\u003cp\u003eWinner: Indiana Center for the Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor all that has been written about the Civil War’s impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union’s Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community—Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction—and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century’s bellwether states, \u003ci\u003eA Generation at War\u003c\/i\u003e considers the Civil War within a much broader chronological context than other accounts. It ranges across three decades to show how the issues of the day—particularly race and sectionalism—temporarily displaced economic and temperance concerns, how the racial attitudes of northern whites changed, and how a generation of young men and women coped with the transformative experience of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEtcheson interrelates an impressively wide range of topics. Through temperance and alcohol she illustrates nativism and class consciousness, while through an account of a murder she probes ethnicity, politics, and gender. She reveals how some women wanted to “maintain dependence” and how the war gave independence to others, as pensions allowed them to survive without a male provider. And she chronicles the major shift in race relations as the most revolutionary change: blacks had been excluded from Indiana in the 1850s but were invited into Putnam County by 1880.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEtcheson personalizes all of these issues through human stories, bringing to life people previously ignored by history, whether veterans demanding recognition of their sacrifice, women speaking out against liquor, or Copperheads parading against Republicans. The introduction of race with the North Carolina Exodusters marks a particularly effective lens for seeing how the idealism unleashed by Lincoln’s war influenced the North. Etcheson also helps us understand how white Southerners tried to reunify the country on the basis of shared white racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on personal papers, local newspapers, pension petitions, Exoduster pamphlets, and more, Etcheson demonstrates how microhistory helps give new meaning to larger events. \u003ci\u003eA Generation at War\u003c\/i\u003e opens a new window on the impact of the Civil War on the agrarian North.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Murder of Martha Mullinix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1: Before the War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. A Northern Party\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Appropriate Places\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. The Excluded Race\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2: The War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Copperheads\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Their Own Corner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Shoulder-Strapped Negroes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3: After the War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Radicals and Conservatives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Pensioners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Exodusters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: The Monument Builder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530997199128,"sku":"9780700635153","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-generation-at-war-the-civil-war-era-in-a-northern-community-paperback-softback-9780700635153","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}