Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort by Richard, Patricia

Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823223008)

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Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort by Richard, Patricia

Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort

$70.00
Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort by Richard, Patricia

Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort

$70.00
Format: Hardcover
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Focusing on middle-class women's contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African American women used images of family and domestic life in their relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling, profanity, and drinking, threatening men's postwar civilian fitness.

Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of Civil War nurses, sanitary workers, soldiers, and the soldiers' aid societies, Richard develops a new perspective on domestic influence on the war, as women sought to save soldiers from the dangers of the military world.

Author: Patricia Richard
ISBN-10: 0823223000
ISBN-13: 9780823223008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2003
Pages: 335
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
By Patricia Richard
By Patricia Richard
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Patricia Richard is Assistant Professor of History at Metropolitan State College of Denver.

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