The rivers ran backward [electronic resource] : the Civil War on the middle border and the making of American regionalism / Christopher Phillips.
Phillips, Christopher, 1959 November 1- author.
2016
F217.B67 P49 2016eb
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Title
The rivers ran backward [electronic resource] : the Civil War on the middle border and the making of American regionalism / Christopher Phillips.
Author
Phillips, Christopher, 1959 November 1- author.
ISBN
9780199378180 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195187236
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 505 pages) : illustrations., map
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195187236 doi
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F217.B67 P49 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.71
Summary
This work argues that historians have largely ignored the West's centrality to perhaps the Civil War's most lasting outcome: the rise of regionalism as a force in postwar domestic politics.
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This work argues that historians have largely ignored the West's centrality to perhaps the Civil War's most lasting outcome: the rise of regionalism as a force in postwar domestic politics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Rivers ran backward.
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Introduction: white salt, black servitude
White flows the river: freedom and unfreedom in the early national west
Babel: changed persistence on slavery's borderland
The ten year war: sectional politics in a dividing region
No north, no south, no east, no west: the fiction of the wartime middle ground
Netherworld of war: civilians, soldiers, and the dominion of war
Bitter harvest: emancipation and the politics of loyalty
Shadow wars: the crucible of social violence
North star, southern cross: the politics of irreconciliation
Conclusion.

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