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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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The South vs. the South how anti-Confederate southerners shaped the course of the Civil War / by Freehling, William W., 1935-

Subjects: “…African Americans Southern States Politics and government 19th century.…”
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Plain folk's fight the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia / by Wetherington, Mark V.

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Iron confederacies southern railways, Klan violence, and Reconstruction / by Nelson, Scott Reynolds

Subjects: “…Railroads Political aspects Southern States History 19th century.…”
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Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War / by Lehman, James O., Nolt, Steven M., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862 -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862 -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north, 1862-1863 -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men war? …”
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Daughters of the Union northern women fight the Civil War / by Silber, Nina

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Missouri's war the Civil War in documents /

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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Texas terror the slave insurrection panic of 1860 and the secession of the lower South / by Reynolds, Donald E., 1931-

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A republic in time temporality and social imagination in nineteenth-century America / by Allen, Thomas M., 1967-

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Masters of the big house elite slaveholders of the mid-nineteenth-century South / by Scarborough, William Kauffman

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Wars within war : Mexican guerrillas, domestic elites, and the United States of America, 1846-1848 / by Levinson, Irving W.

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Inside the Confederate nation essays in honor of Emory M. Thomas /

“…Confederate States of America Politics and government.…”
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Eighteen hundred and froze to death : the impact of America's first climate crisis / by Dippel, John Van Houten, 1946-

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Tribes & empire on the margins of nineteenth-century Iran by Khazeni, Arash

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Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 by Ngalamulume, Kalala J.

“…Society and politics in Africa,…”
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Wars within a war controversy and conflict over the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Women numerous and armed : gender and the politics of subsistence in the Civil War south /…”
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Cultural genocide by Davidson, Lawrence, 1945-

“…Genocide, political violence, human rights series.…”
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Hunting and fishing in the new South : black labor and white leisure after the Civil War / by Giltner, Scott E., 1973-

“…Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;…”
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