| Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865 None Edition Contributor(s): Gillette, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813526949 ISBN-13: 9780813526942 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 974.903 |
| LCCN: 94010143 |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.04" W x 9.03" (1.44 lbs) 408 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in particular its relationship to the border states. William Gillette argues that there is little evidence supporting the idea that New Jersey's residents were pro-southern before the war, or even antiwar during it, although attitudes toward the abolition of slavery were more ambivalent. The perspectives Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities, state identity, and our understanding of the interrelationships between New Jersey's national, regional, and state developments. Gillette takes a broader view of the politics of the Civil War as he touches on the economy, geography, demography, immigration, nativism, conscription, and law. The result is a pioneering history of New Jersey that deepens our understanding of the Civil War. |
