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Empire and liberty : the Civil War and the West
Title
Empire and liberty : the Civil War and the West / edited by Virginia Scharff, exhibition curated by Carolyn Brucken.
ISBN
9780520281264 (cloth)
0520281268 (cloth)
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Summary
"Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West shaped the conflict over slavery, and how slavery shaped the West, in the process defining American ideals about freedom and influencing battles over race, property, and citizenship. This innovative work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the United States observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. A companion volume to an Autry National Center exhibition on the Civil War and the West, Empire and Liberty brings leading historians together to examine artifacts, objects, and art that illuminate this period of national expansion, conflict, and catharsis"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The price of slavery across empire : family, community, and loss in Texas
The Frémonts : agents of empire, legends of liberty
Beecher's bibles and broadswords : paving the way for the Civil War in the West, 1854-1859
Liberty, empire, and Civil War in the American West
When the stars fell from the sky : the Cherokee Nation and autonomy in the Civil War
On the edge of empires, republics, and identities : de la Guerra's sword of the war and the California native cavalry
John Gast's American Progress : using Manifest Destiny to forget the Civil War and Reconstruction
Empire and liberty in the middle of nowhere
The not-so-free labor in the American Southwest
After Antietam : memory and memorabilia in the far west
"You brought history alive for us" : reflections on the lives of nineteenth-century Diné women.
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