Buying and selling Civil War memory in Gilded Age America /
Buying and Selling the Civil War is a collection of original essays about the marketing and selling of Civil War memory during the postwar economic boom known as the "Gilded Age." The editors, Marten and Janney, both renowned scholars for their studies of the Civil War, provide a new frame...
| Other Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2021]
|
| Series: | Uncivil wars.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Buying and Selling the Civil War is a collection of original essays about the marketing and selling of Civil War memory during the postwar economic boom known as the "Gilded Age." The editors, Marten and Janney, both renowned scholars for their studies of the Civil War, provide a new framework for examining the intersections of material culture, consumerism and contested memory. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience or idea related to how the Civil War is remembered and memorialized. Taken together, these essays trace the ways the buying and selling of the Civil War shaped Americans' thinking about the conflict. As one reviewer points out, this volume makes an "important contribution to scholarship on Civil War memory" and extends our understanding of subjects as varied as "print culture, visual culture, popular culture, finance, the history of education, the history of the book and the history of capitalism in this period." |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820359663 0820359661 9780820359656 0820359653 |