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AMERICAN HISTORY

NEW NEW Food and Agriculture

No Surrender The Northern Home during the Civil War

Asymmetric Warfare in Front during the R. DOUGLAS HURT
the Reconstruction Civil War
South, 1868–1877
PAUL A. CIMBALA AND
KEITH D. DICKSON RANDALL M. MILLER

January 2016, 216pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-0325-3
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Choice
A modern and current examination “ Clearly written and based on “ Incorporates recent
of Reconstruction that explains how the most recent scholarship, scholarship, primary source
the South in the aftermath of defeat [this book] is the first research, and extensive use of
in a total war, was still able to exhaust comprehensive overview of contemporary publications that
the will of the powerful North using the Union home front in twenty targeted agrarian readers . . .
asymmetric warfare. years. ” Essential. All levels/libraries. ”
FEATURES —Nicole Etcheson, Alexander M. —Choice, July 1, 2016
• Offers a synthesis of asymmetric Bracken Professor of History, Ball State
warfare concepts that provides a University, September 30, 2016 This book provides a perspective
novel context for understanding This book comprehensively covers the into the past that few students and
events and developments of historians of the Civil War have
the Reconstruction era and the wide geographical range of the northern considered: agriculture during the Civil
emergence of the New South home fronts during the Civil War, War as a key element of power.
emphasizing the diverse ways people
• Enables readers to draw interesting FEATURES
parallels between the events of interpreted, responded to, and adapted to
Reconstruction 140 years ago to the war by their ideas, interests, and actions. • Examines the transition of Southern
recent U.S. military’s experience in FEATURES agriculture from slavery to freedom
the Middle East • Discusses the roles of white and black
• Presents an authoritative, modern, women in Northern and Southern
• Explains how reconciliation and and comprehensive examination of
peace result from a political- the northern home front agriculture during the Civil War era
social equilibrium that marks the • Includes a compelling black-and-
achievement of the weaker actor’s white photo essay
goals PAUL A. CIMBALA is professor of
history at Fordham University, Rose Hill R. DOUGLAS HURT, PhD, is professor
Campus, Bronx, NY.
KEITH D. DICKSON is professor of and head of the Department of History
military studies at the Joint Forces Staff RANDALL M. MILLER is the William at Purdue University.
College, Norfolk, VA. Dirk Warren ‘50 Sesquicentennial
Chair and professor of history at Saint
Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA.
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