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"Buying and Selling the Civil War is a collection of original essays about the marketing and selling of Civil War memory during the postwar economic boom known as the "Gilded Age." The editors, Marten and Janney, both renowned scholars for their studies of the Civil War, provide a new framework for examining the intersections of material culture, consumerism, and contested memory. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War is remembered and memorialized. Taken together, these essays trace the ways the buying and selling of the Civil War shaped Americans' thinking about the conflict. As one reviewer points out, this volume makes an "important contribution to scholarship on Civil War memory" and extends our understanding of subjects as varied as "print culture, visual culture, popular culture, finance, the history of education, the history of the book, and the history of capitalism in this period." The volume's contributors include Crompton B. Burton, Kevin R. Caprice, Shae Cox, Jonathan S. Jones, David K. Thompson, Amanda Brickell Bellows, Natalie Sweet, Jonathan W. White, Anna Gibson Holloway, Barbara A. Gannon, Edward John Harcourt, Margaret Fairgrieve Milanick, Paul Ringel, and John Neff"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• All true soldiers : defining veteranhood
• A simple business speculation : the selling of a Civil War prison / John Neff
• Buying and selling health and manhood : Civil War veterans and opiate addiction "cures" / Johathan S. Jones
• Premium veteranhood : Union veterans and manhood in post-Civil War America, 1879-1900 / Kevin R. Caprice
• "Let every comrade lend us a hand" : George E. Lemon and the National Tribune / Crompton R. Burton
• Outfitting the Lost Cause : the re-creation of southern identity through Confederate veterans' uniforms, 1865 to the 1920s
• "A book that we want to hand down to posterity" : social memory by subscription in the Military Annals of Tennessee / Edward John Harcourt
• Attention company : marketing and advertising
• "American originals" : the Monitor and the Merrimack as marketing machines / Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White
• "Let us have peace" : commercial representations of reunion and reconciliation after the U.S. Civil War / Amanda Brickell Bellows
• Marketing the "great hero" : Duke Cigarette's short histories of Civil War generals' lives / Natalie Sweet
• "The national debt may be a national blessing" : debt as an instrument of character in the Civil War era / David K. Thomson
• Coming to tell the tale : imagining the war
• Marketing the dead : the Civil War in 3-D and 2-D
• Big ideas in a little box : nation building in Milton Bradley's myriopticon / Margaret Fairgrieve Milanick
• "A victorious Union" : Oliver Optic sells the Civil War to northern youths, 1863-1898 / Paul Ringel
• Vigorous men with something to say : Civil War lecturers in Gilded Age America / James Marten
• A new and unique show : the rise and fall of Civil War cycloramas / Caroline E. Janney.

Contributors:

Marten, James Alan , editor

Janney, Caroline E. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Uncivil wars

Subjects:

United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Collectibles

United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects

Material culture — United States — History — 19th century

Selling — Collectibles — United States — History — 19th century

Collective memory — United States — History — 19th century

Popular culture — United States — History — 19th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

E468.9 .B896 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780820359670 (electronic bk.)
082035967X (electronic bk.)
9780820359663 [Invalid]
0820359661 [Invalid]
9780820359656 [Invalid]
0820359653 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1255224562

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6635585 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17492019