Item details: The rivers ran backward : the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border - 48111543

The rivers ran backward : the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border

text The rivers ran backward : the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border

Phillips, Christopher

Summary: In The Rivers Ran Backward, historian Christopher Phillips sheds light on the fluid regional identities of the "Middle Border" states during the Civil War era. Far from forming a fixed and static boundary between the North and South, the border st... Read more

Contents: Introduction: white salt, black servitude -- White flows the river: freedom and unfreedom in the early national west -- Babel: changed persistence on slavery's borderland -- The ten year war: sectional politics in a dividing region -- No north, no... Read more

Format: text

Description: xviii, 505 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Publisher: Oxford University Press 2016

Library	Location	Status
Woodmere (Main Branch)	973.3 PHI in Adult Non-fiction	Available

Library	Location	Status
TADL-WOOD	973.3 PHI in Adult Non-fiction	Available

Border States (U.S. Civil War) Middle West History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects Regionalism Border States Regionalism Middle West History 19th century Group identity Border States Group identity Middle West History 19th century

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