Massachusetts and the Civil War The Commonwealth and National Disunion |
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| Editor:
| Mason, Matthew
Viens, Katheryn P.
Wright, Conrad Edick |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62534-149-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $127.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.