Civil War time : temporality & identity in America, 1861-1865 /

Civil War time : temporality & identity in America, 1861-1865 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, Cheryl A., 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Time > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Time > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century.
Group identity > United States > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, American.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Time lost, time found : the Confederate victory at Manassas and the Union defeat at Bull Run
  • "An hour too late" : the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg
  • "Like a wheel in a watch" : soldiers, camp, and battle time
  • Battle time : gender, modernity, and Civil War hospitals
  • Doing time : the cannon, the clock, and Civil War prisons
  • Epilogue : antebellum temporalities in the postbellum period.