Busy Hands by Patricia Richard
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.-
The Road to Richmond
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Northern Character
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Abraham Lincoln
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This Distracted and Anarchical People
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The Limits of Dissent
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The Lincoln Forum
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For the Vast Future Also
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Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front
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Carl Schurz
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Melting Pot Soldiers
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"First Among Equals"
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From First to Last
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Shades of Green
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The Lincoln Assassination
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Deserter Country
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State of the Union
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Excommunicated from the Union
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Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army
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New Bedford's Civil War
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New Masters
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Liberty, Virtue, and Progress
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Affairs of Party
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Civil War America
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Exploring Lincoln
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Fear Was not in Him
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Lincoln and Leadership
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Sacred Debts
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Union Combined Operations in the Civil War
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The Northern Home Front During the Civil War
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New Perspectives on the Union War
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A Grand Terrible Drama
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Prang's Civil War Pictures
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Touched with Fire
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Freedom, Union, and Power
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So Conceived and So Dedicated
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Family War Stories
Patricia Richard is Assistant Professor of History at Metropolitan State College of Denver.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780823223008 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823223000 |
| Title | Busy Hands |
| Author | Patricia Richard |
| Series | The North's Civil War |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2003-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 335 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |