The rivers ran backward, the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border, Christopher Phillips
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- Border States (U.S. Civil War)
- Middle West -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Regionalism -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
- Group identity -- Border States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
- Group identity -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
- Regionalism -- Border States
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The rivers ran backward, the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border, Christopher Phillips
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-474) and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The rivers ran backward
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
936429914
Responsibility statement
Christopher Phillips
Sub title
the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border
Table of contents
Introduction: white salt, black servitude -- White flows the river: freedom and unfreedom in the early national west -- Babel: changed persistence on slavery's borderland -- The ten year war: sectional politics in a dividing region -- No north, no south, no east, no west: the fiction of the wartime middle ground -- Netherworld of war: civilians, soldiers, and the dominion of war -- Bitter harvest: emancipation and the politics of loyalty -- Shadow wars: the crucible of social violence -- North star, southern cross: the politics of irreconciliation -- Conclusion
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