Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction

<p>Notes on the contributors vii</p>
<p>Introduction: A Civil War in the Age of Capital 1<br />Lacy K. Ford</p>
<p>Part I: Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the Civil War</p>
<p>1 Slavery and the Union, 1789 1833 25<br />Douglas R. Egerton</p>
<p>2 The Market Revolution 41<br />John Larson</p>
<p>3 Slavery and the Old South 60<br />Larry Hudson</p>
<p>4 Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South 75<br />Charles C. Bolton</p>
<p>5 Humanitarian Reform and Antislavery 94<br />James B. Stewart</p>
<p>6 Women in the Antebellum North 112<br />Teresa Murphy</p>
<p>7 Women in the Old South 128<br />Michele Gillespie</p>
<p>8 The Road to Secession 152<br />Michael Morrison</p>
<p>9 The Republican Triumph 167<br />John Ashworth</p>
<p>10 And the War Came 183<br />Daniel Crofts</p>
<p>Part II: The Civil War and American Society</p>
<p>11 Saving the Union 203<br />Kevin Gannon</p>
<p>12 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Union 223<br />Carol Reardon</p>
<p>13 Civil War Military Campaigns: The Confederacy 239<br />Steven Woodworth</p>
<p>14 The Confederate Home Front 258<br />Mary DeCredico</p>
<p>15 Emancipation 277<br />Joseph P. Reidy</p>
<p>Part III: Reconstruction and the New Nation</p>
<p>16 Defining Reconstruction 299<br />O. Vernon Burton, David Herr, and Matthew Cheney</p>
<p>17 The Politics of Reconstruction 323<br />Michael Perman</p>
<p>18 The Economics of Reconstruction 342<br />Peter A. Coclanis and Scott Marler</p>
<p>19 Southern Labor and Reconstruction 366<br />R. Tracy McKenzie</p>
<p>20 Northern Women during the Age of Emancipation 386<br />Nina Silber</p>
<p>21 Southern Women during the Age of Emancipation 403<br />Jeannie Whayne</p>
<p>22 The Legacy of Confederate Defeat 423<br />Gaines M. Foster</p>
<p>23 Reconstruction and the Nation 447<br />Heather Richardson</p>
<p>Bibliography 468</p>
<p>Index 504</p>