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So conceived and so dedicated : intellectual life in the Civil War-era north / edited by Lorien Foote and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2015.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823264506
  • 9780823264513
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E468 .S636 2015
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Contents:
Lorien Foote -- U.S. Sanitary Commission physicians and the transformation of American health care / Kathryn Shively Meier -- War cybernetics: medicine, modernity, and the intellectual mechanics of union / Susan-Mary Grant -- To save the afflicted union: race, civic health, and the sanitary front / Richard Newman -- John Codman Ropes: a lawyer's historian / Richard F. Miller -- Save a school to save a nation: faculty responses to the Civil War at midwestern universities / Julie Mujic -- Lessons of war: three Civil War veterans and the goals of postwar education / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai -- "The rebels' last device": Theodore R. Davis and faithful representations of black soldiers during the Civil War / Niki Lefebvre -- For their adopted home: native northerners in the south during the secession crisis / David Zimring -- Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: the questions of nationalism, citizenship, and human rights / Christian G. Samito -- "This most unholy and destructive war": Catholic intellectuals and the limits of Catholic patriotism / William Kurtz.
Subject: Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the conflict and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining ""intellectuals"" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometime.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Historians and intellectual life in the Civil War era / Lorien Foote -- U.S. Sanitary Commission physicians and the transformation of American health care / Kathryn Shively Meier -- War cybernetics: medicine, modernity, and the intellectual mechanics of union / Susan-Mary Grant -- To save the afflicted union: race, civic health, and the sanitary front / Richard Newman -- John Codman Ropes: a lawyer's historian / Richard F. Miller -- Save a school to save a nation: faculty responses to the Civil War at midwestern universities / Julie Mujic -- Lessons of war: three Civil War veterans and the goals of postwar education / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai -- "The rebels' last device": Theodore R. Davis and faithful representations of black soldiers during the Civil War / Niki Lefebvre -- For their adopted home: native northerners in the south during the secession crisis / David Zimring -- Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: the questions of nationalism, citizenship, and human rights / Christian G. Samito -- "This most unholy and destructive war": Catholic intellectuals and the limits of Catholic patriotism / William Kurtz.

Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the conflict and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining ""intellectuals"" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometime.

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