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Massachusetts and the Civil War
. Ed(S): Mason, Matthew; Viens, Katheryn P.; Wright, Conrad Edick
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Paperback. Editor(s): Mason, Matthew; Viens, Katheryn P.; Wright, Conrad Edick. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
All states are not created equal, at least not when it comes to their influence on American history. That assumption underlies Massachusetts and the Civil War. The volume's ten essays coalesce around the national significance of Massachusetts through the Civil War era, the ways in which the commonwealth reflected and even modelled the Union's precarious but real wartime unification, and the Bay State's postwar return to the schisms that predated the war. Rather than attempting to summarize every aspect of the state's contribution to the wartime Union, the collection focuses on what was distinctive about its influence during the great ... Read more
All states are not created equal, at least not when it comes to their influence on American history. That assumption underlies Massachusetts and the Civil War. The volume's ten essays coalesce around the national significance of Massachusetts through the Civil War era, the ways in which the commonwealth reflected and even modelled the Union's precarious but real wartime unification, and the Bay State's postwar return to the schisms that predated the war. Rather than attempting to summarize every aspect of the state's contribution to the wartime Union, the collection focuses on what was distinctive about its influence during the great ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341501
SKU
V9781625341501
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About . Ed(S): Mason, Matthew; Viens, Katheryn P.; Wright, Conrad Edick
Matthew Mason is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, USA. Kathryn P. Viens is research coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Conrad Edick Wright is Worthington C. Ford Editor and director of research at the Massachusetts Historical Society and author of Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
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