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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195187237
ISBN-13
9780195187236
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Book Title
Rivers Ran Backward : the Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Social Psychology, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
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Political Science, Psychology, History
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Hardcover
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1.8 in
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36.9 Oz
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6.4 in
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9.4 in
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2015-042282
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"The region where five great rivers come together-the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi-experienced a civil war within the Civil War. Christopher Phillips' fresh perspective on this conflict offers new insights on the great American trauma that forged a renewed nation on the ruins of the old one. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in the Civil War."-James M. McPherson, author of The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters "Christopher Phillips has written one of the most important books on the Civil War in a generation. Massively researched-down to local church records-sparkling with original thinking, and deeply humane, The Rivers Ran Backward illustrates how Americans struggled over the stakes of the conflict, the definition of freedom, and the very idea of North, South, and West. Phillips reveals the War Within the States, personal, intense, and hugely consequential."-T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America "In a work of remarkable research and clear insight, Christopher Phillips has recast our understanding of a vast part of the American landscape during the Civil War. Phillips shows us that the war, and the society it defined, refused to be bounded either by the Ohio River or by comforting generalizations."-Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America "The remaking of 'the middle border' that The Rivers Ran Backward forwards rests on a fundamental remapping of American regional histories. Instead of treating the Ohio River as a divide between the realms of freedom and slavery that dated from the beginnings of the republic and produced the Civil War, this exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and powerfully argued book shows how the Civil War produced the division between North and South that was subsequently inscribed in the memories of the people on opposite sides of the middle border and written into the histories of the region and the United States."-Stephen Aron, author of The American West: A Very Short Introduction "[An] excellent work of scholarship. By focusing on the Middle Border, Phillips expands our understandings of the West and forces historians to reconsider the North-South sectional binary. As a result, The Rivers Ran Backwards significantly adds to understandings of the border region as well as the American West."--The Civil War Monitor "The Rivers Ran Backward is a wonderfully deep distillation of a career's worth of scholarly investigation into the people, politics, society, and warfare of the western borderlands during the Civil War era. It is highly recommended."--Civil War Books and Authors "[Christopher Phillips] places the trans-Appalachian border under a lens to reveal, in fine-grained detail, the multitude of wars within the Civil War that flared on both sides of the Ohio River and west through Missouri and Kansas... [E]xhaustive research... [and] fine narrative skill... adds much to our understanding of this crucial region, untangling the shifting loyalties (and disloyalties) that tore the region apart."--The Wall Street Journal "A most creative and important work of scholarship [with...] penetrating arguments and vivid examples."--Missouri Historical Review "Scholarly, readable, and compelling."--Naval History Review A Civil War Monitor Best Book of 2016, "The region where five great rivers come together-the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi-experienced a civil war within the Civil War. Christopher Phillips' fresh perspective on this conflict offers new insights on the great American trauma that forged a renewed nation on the ruins of the old one. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in the Civil War."-James M. McPherson, author of The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters "Christopher Phillips has written one of the most important books on the Civil War in a generation. Massively researched-down to local church records-sparkling with original thinking, and deeply humane, The Rivers Ran Backward illustrates how Americans struggled over the stakes of the conflict, the definition of freedom, and the very idea of North, South, and West. Phillips reveals the War Within the States, personal, intense, and hugely consequential."-T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America "In a work of remarkable research and clear insight, Christopher Phillips has recast our understanding of a vast part of the American landscape during the Civil War. Phillips shows us that the war, and the society it defined, refused to be bounded either by the Ohio River or by comforting generalizations."-Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America "The remaking of 'the middle border' that The Rivers Ran Backward forwards rests on a fundamental remapping of American regional histories. Instead of treating the Ohio River as a divide between the realms of freedom and slavery that dated from the beginnings of the republic and produced the Civil War, this exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and powerfully argued book shows how the Civil War produced the division between North and South that was subsequently inscribed in the memories of the people on opposite sides of the middle border and written into the histories of the region and the United States."-Stephen Aron, author of The American West: A Very Short Introduction, "The region where five great rivers come together-the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi-experienced a civil war within the Civil War. Christopher Phillips' fresh perspective on this conflict offers new insights on the great American trauma that forged a renewed nation on the ruins of the old one. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in the Civil War."-James M. McPherson, author of The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters "Christopher Phillips has written one of the most important books on the Civil War in a generation. Massively researched-down to local church records-sparkling with original thinking, and deeply humane, The Rivers Ran Backward illustrates how Americans struggled over the stakes of the conflict, the definition of freedom, and the very idea of North, South, and West. Phillips reveals the War Within the States, personal, intense, and hugely consequential."-T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America "In a work of remarkable research and clear insight, Christopher Phillips has recast our understanding of a vast part of the American landscape during the Civil War. Phillips shows us that the war, and the society it defined, refused to be bounded either by the Ohio River or by comforting generalizations."-Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America "The remaking of 'the middle border' that The Rivers Ran Backward forwards rests on a fundamental remapping of American regional histories. Instead of treating the Ohio River as a divide between the realms of freedom and slavery that dated from the beginnings of the republic and produced the Civil War, this exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and powerfully argued book shows how the Civil War produced the division between North and South that was subsequently inscribed in the memories of the people on opposite sides of the middle border and written into the histories of the region and the United States."-Stephen Aron, author of The American West: A Very Short Introduction "[An] excellent work of scholarship. By focusing on the Middle Border, Phillips expands our understandings of the West and forces historians to reconsider the North-South sectional binary. As a result, The Rivers Ran Backwards significantly adds to understandings of the border region as well as the American West."--The Civil War Monitor "The Rivers Ran Backward is a wonderfully deep distillation of a career's worth of scholarly investigation into the people, politics, society, and warfare of the western borderlands during the Civil War era. It is highly recommended."--Civil War Books and Authors "[Christopher Phillips] places the trans-Appalachian border under a lens to reveal, in fine-grained detail, the multitude of wars within the Civil War that flared on both sides of the Ohio River and west through Missouri and Kansas... [E]xhaustive research... [and] fine narrative skill... adds much to our understanding of this crucial region, untangling the shifting loyalties (and disloyalties) that tore the region apart."--The Wall Street Journal, "The region where five great rivers come together-the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi-experienced a civil war within the Civil War. Christopher Phillips' fresh perspective on this conflict offers new insights on the great American trauma that forged a renewed nation on the ruins of the old one. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in the Civil War."-James M. McPherson, author of The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters "Christopher Phillips has written one of the most important books on the Civil War in a generation. Massively researched-down to local church records-sparkling with original thinking, and deeply humane, The Rivers Ran Backward illustrates how Americans struggled over the stakes of the conflict, the definition of freedom, and the very idea of North, South, and West. Phillips reveals the War Within the States, personal, intense, and hugely consequential."-T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America "In a work of remarkable research and clear insight, Christopher Phillips has recast our understanding of a vast part of the American landscape during the Civil War. Phillips shows us that the war, and the society it defined, refused to be bounded either by the Ohio River or by comforting generalizations."-Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America "The remaking of 'the middle border' that The Rivers Ran Backward forwards rests on a fundamental remapping of American regional histories. Instead of treating the Ohio River as a divide between the realms of freedom and slavery that dated from the beginnings of the republic and produced the Civil War, this exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and powerfully argued book shows how the Civil War produced the division between North and South that was subsequently inscribed in the memories of the people on opposite sides of the middle border and written into the histories of the region and the United States."-Stephen Aron, author of The American West: A Very Short Introduction "[An] excellent work of scholarship. By focusing on the Middle Border, Phillips expands our understandings of the West and forces historians to reconsider the North-South sectional binary. As a result, The Rivers Ran Backwards significantly adds to understandings of the border region as well as the American West."--The Civil War Monitor "The Rivers Ran Backward is a wonderfully deep distillation of a career's worth of scholarly investigation into the people, politics, society, and warfare of the western borderlands during the Civil War era. It is highly recommended."--Civil War Books and Authors, "The region where five great rivers come together-the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi-experienced a civil war within the Civil War. Christopher Phillips' fresh perspective on this conflict offers new insights on the great American trauma that forged a renewed nation on the ruins of the old one. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in the Civil War."-James M. McPherson, author of The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters "Christopher Phillips has written one of the most important books on the Civil War in a generation. Massively researched-down to local church records-sparkling with original thinking, and deeply humane, The Rivers Ran Backward illustrates how Americans struggled over the stakes of the conflict, the definition of freedom, and the very idea of North, South, and West. Phillips reveals the War Within the States, personal, intense, and hugely consequential."-T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America "In a work of remarkable research and clear insight, Christopher Phillips has recast our understanding of a vast part of the American landscape during the Civil War. Phillips shows us that the war, and the society it defined, refused to be bounded either by the Ohio River or by comforting generalizations."-Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America "The remaking of 'the middle border' that The Rivers Ran Backward forwards rests on a fundamental remapping of American regional histories. Instead of treating the Ohio River as a divide between the realms of freedom and slavery that dated from the beginnings of the republic and produced the Civil War, this exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and powerfully argued book shows how the Civil War produced the division between North and South that was subsequently inscribed in the memories of the people on opposite sides of the middle border and written into the histories of the region and the United States."-Stephen Aron, author of The American West: A Very Short Introduction "[An] excellent work of scholarship. By focusing on the Middle Border, Phillips expands our understandings of the West and forces historians to reconsider the North-South sectional binary. As a result, The Rivers Ran Backwards significantly adds to understandings of the border region as well as the American West."--The Civil War Monitor "The Rivers Ran Backward is a wonderfully deep distillation of a career's worth of scholarly investigation into the people, politics, society, and warfare of the western borderlands during the Civil War era. It is highly recommended."--Civil War Books and Authors "[Christopher Phillips] places the trans-Appalachian border under a lens to reveal, in fine-grained detail, the multitude of wars within the Civil War that flared on both sides of the Ohio River and west through Missouri and Kansas... [E]xhaustive research... [and] fine narrative skill... adds much to our understanding of this crucial region, untangling the shifting loyalties (and disloyalties) that tore the region apart."--The Wall Street Journal "A most creative and important work of scholarship [with...] penetrating arguments and vivid examples."--Missouri Historical Review "Scholarly, readable, and compelling."--Naval History Review
Table Of Content
Prologue "There is a West"IntroductionInterstice-White Salt, Black Servitude1. White Flows the River-Freedom and Unfreedom in the Early National WestInterstice-North of Slavery, West of Abolition2. Babel-Changed Persistence on Slavery's BorderlandInterstice-Vox Populi3. The Ten Year War-Sectional Politics in a Dividing RegionInterstice-House of Cards4. No North-No South-No East-No West-The Fiction of the Wartime Middle GroundInterstice-The Gates of Zion5. Netherworld of War-Civilians, Soldiers, and the Dominion of WarInterstice-War of Another Kind6. Bitter Harvest-Emancipation and the Politics of LoyaltyInterstice-The Art of Retaliation7. Shadow Wars-The Crucible of Social ViolenceInterstice-A River Between Them8. North Star, Southern Cross-The Politics of IrreconciliationEpilogue Rally Round the FlagConclusionAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex
Synopsis
Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham Lincoln's home region, had far more ambiguous identities-and contested political loyalties-than we commonly assume. In The Rivers Ran Backward, Christopher Phillips sheds light on the fluid political cultures 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 states experienced fierce internal conflicts over their political and social loyalties. White supremacy and widespread support for the existence of slavery pervaded the "free" states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, which had much closer economic and cultural ties to the South, while those in Kentucky and Missouri held little identification with the South except over slavery. Debates raged at every level, from the individual to the state, in parlors, churches, schools, and public meeting places, among families, neighbors, and friends. Ultimately, the pervasive violence of the Civil War and the cultural politics that raged in its aftermath proved to be the strongest determining factor in shaping these states' regional identities, leaving an indelible imprint on the way in which Americans think of themselves and others in the nation. The Rivers Ran Backward reveals the complex history of the western border states as they struggled with questions of nationalism, racial politics, secession, neutrality, loyalty, and even place-as the Civil War tore the nation, and themselves, apart. In this major work, Phillips shows that the Civil War was more than a conflict pitting the North against the South, but one within the West that permanently reshaped American regions., Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham Lincoln's home region, had far more ambiguous identities - and political loyalties - than we commonly assume. 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 states experienced fierce internal conflicts over their political and social loyalties. White supremacy and widespread support for the existence of slavery pervaded the "free" states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, which had much closer economic and cultural ties to the South, while those in Kentucky and Missouri held little identification with the South except over slavery. Debates raged at every level, from the individual to the state, in parlors, churches, schools, and public meeting places, among families, neighbors, and friends. Ultimately, the violence of the Civil War and cultural politics in its aftermath proved to be the strongest determining factor in shaping the states' regional identities, leaving an indelible imprint on the way in which Americans thought both of themselves and others. The Rivers Ran Backward reveals the complex history of the western border states as they struggled with questions of nationalism, racial politics, secession, neutrality, loyalty, and place - even as the Civil War threatened to tear the nation apart. In this work, Phillips shows that the Civil War was more than a conflict pitting the North against the South, but one within the West that reshaped American regionalism., Most Americans believe that the Ohio River was a clearly defined and static demographic and political boundary between North and South, an extension of the Mason-Dixon Line. Once settled, the new states west of the Appalachians -- the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and of the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas -- formed a fixed boundary between freedom and slavery, extending the border that inevitably produced the war. None of this is true, except perhaps the outcome of war. But the centrality of the Civil War and its outcome in the making of these tropes is undeniable. Historian Christopher Phillips contests the assumption that regional identities throughout the "Middle Border" states were stable in the era of the Civil War. States such as Missouri and Kentucky tended to identify as more western than southern during the first half of the nineteenth century. Conversely, much of the population of the lower Midwestern states of Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana had stronger cultural, economic, and political ties to slave states than to New England or the Middle Atlantic. But across the region the Civil War left an indelible imprint on the way in which residents thought of themselves and other Americans, proving as much a shaper as a product of regional identities. A sweeping argument employing a strong narrative, telling vignettes, and the voices of regional and national figures, this book makes a major contribution to Civil War history and to American history on a broader scale.
LC Classification Number
F217.B67P49 2016
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