| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
New Bedford's Civil War/ Earl F. Mulderink III. |
| Author: |
Mulderink, Earl F. |
| Published: |
New York :Fordham University Press, : 2012., |
| Description: |
1 online resource (320 p.). |
| [NT 15003449]: |
"A burning and shining light": prosperity and enlightened governancein antebellum New Bedford-- "The nearest approach to freedom and equality": African Americans in antebellum New Bedford -- "Suppression of an unholy rebellion": wartime mobilization on the home front -- "Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts": New Bedford's volunteers in the Civil War -- "Boys, I only did my duty": New Bedford's black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts -- "Worthy recipients": New Bedford's black veterans and the web of social welfare -- "Business is extremely dull": whaling and manufacturing in wartime New Bedford -- "The position of our city has materially changed": public costs and municipal governance during the Civil War -- "The great hope for the future": New Bedford in thepostbellum era -- "On the altar of our common country": contested commemorations of the Civil War. |
| Subject: |
United States - Economic policy - 1981-1993 - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823246670/Full text available: |
| ISBN: |
9780823246670 (electronic bk.) |