Book ID: CBB116361332

Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (2015)

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Arenson, Adam (Author)
Graybill, Andrew R. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: x + 321 pp., photographs, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index
Language: English

This volume unifies the concerns of Civil War and western history, revealing how Confederate secession created new and shifting borderlands. In the West, both Civil War battlefields and Civil War politics engaged a wider range of ethnic and racial distinctions, raising questions that would arise only later in places farther east. Likewise, the histories of occupation, reincorporation, and expanded citizenship during Reconstruction in the South have ignored the connections to previous as well as subsequent efforts in the West. The stories contained in this volume complicate our understanding of the paths from slavery to freedom for white as well as non-white Americans. By placing the histories of the American West and the Civil War and Reconstruction into one sustained conversation, this volume expands the limits of both by emphasizing how struggles over land, labor, sovereignty, and citizenship shaped the U.S. nation-state in this tumultuous era. This volume highlights significant moments and common concerns of this continuous conflict, as it stretched across the continent and throughout the nineteenth century. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Hansen, Peter A.
Kathke, Torsten
Stiles, T.J.
Robert L. Frey
John Taliaferro
Goldfeder, Ron
Concepts
Railroads
Land transportation
Nature
Environmentalism
Frontier
Environment
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Western states (U.S.)
Promontory Point, Utah
Southern states (U.S.)
Appalachian region (North America)
Institutions
Union Pacific Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Great Northern Railway Company
Union Pacific Railroad
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