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

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"In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernizing, capitalist societies. Work bells, clock towers, and personal timepieces increasingly instilled discipline on one's day, which already was ordered by religious custom and nature's rhythms. The Civil War changed that,...

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Main Author: Wells, Cheryl A., 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
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.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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