Table of Contents
Notes on the contributors vii
Introduction: A Civil War in the Age of Capital 1Lacy K. Ford
Part I: Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the Civil War
1 Slavery and the Union, 1789–1833 25Douglas R. Egerton
2 The Market Revolution 41John Larson
3 Slavery and the Old South 60Larry Hudson
4 Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South 75Charles C. Bolton
5 Humanitarian Reform and Antislavery 94James B. Stewart
6 Women in the Antebellum North 112Teresa Murphy
7 Women in the Old South 128Michele Gillespie
8 The Road to Secession 152Michael Morrison
9 The Republican Triumph 167John Ashworth
10 And the War Came 183Daniel Crofts
Part II: The Civil War and American Society
11 Saving the Union 203Kevin Gannon
12 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Union 223Carol Reardon
13 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Confederacy 239Steven Woodworth
14 The Confederate Home Front 258Mary DeCredico
15 Emancipation 277Joseph P. Reidy
Part III: Reconstruction and the New Nation
16 Defining Reconstruction 299O. Vernon Burton, David Herr, and Matthew Cheney
17 The Politics of Reconstruction 323Michael Perman
18 The Economics of Reconstruction 342Peter A. Coclanis and Scott Marler
19 Southern Labor and Reconstruction 366R. Tracy McKenzie
20 Northern Women during the Age of Emancipation 386Nina Silber
21 Southern Women during the Age of Emancipation 403Jeannie Whayne
22 The Legacy of Confederate Defeat 423Gaines M. Foster
23 Reconstruction and the Nation 447Heather Richardson
Bibliography 468
Index 504