Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
- ISBN-10
- 082035967X
- ISBN-13
- 9780820359670
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-07-15
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Authors
- James Marten, Caroline E. Janney
Description
Taken together, these essays trace the ways the buying and selling of the Civil War shaped Americans’ thinking about the conflict, making an important contribution to scholarship on Civil War memory and extending our understanding of ...
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