{"product_id":"grand-army-of-labor-matthew-e-stanley-9780252043741","title":"Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eEnlisting memory in a new fight for freedom\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies. Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism. \u003cp\u003eAn original consideration of meaning and memory, \u003ci\u003eGrand Army of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers' rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew E. Stanley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 025204374X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252043741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023","brand":"Matthew E. Stanley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086448046335,"sku":"9780252043741","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_687b70c3-fcbc-4423-b810-90c48f5dbba6.jpg?v=1769094729","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grand-army-of-labor-matthew-e-stanley-9780252043741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}