{"product_id":"buying-and-selling-civil-war-memory-in-gilded-age-america-9780820359656","title":"Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuying and Selling Civil War Memory\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for veterans rather than soldiers; publishing houses built subscription bases by tapping into wartime loyalties; while old and young alike found endless sources of entertainment that harkened back to the war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving beyond the discussions of how Civil War memory shaped politics and race relations, the essays assembled by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney provide a new framework for examining the intersections of material culture, consumerism, and contested memory in the everyday lives of late nineteenth-century Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War was remembered and memorialized. Taken together, these essays trace the ways the buying and selling of the Civil War shaped Americans' thinking about the conflict, making an important contribution to scholarship on Civil War memory and extending our understanding of subjects as varied as print, visual, and popular culture; finance; and the histories of education, of the book, and of capitalism in this period. This highly teachable volume presents an exciting intellectual fusion by bringing the subfield of memory studies into conversation with the literature on material culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume's contributors include Amanda Brickell Bellows, Crompton B. Burton, Kevin R. Caprice, Shae Smith Cox, Barbara A. Gannon, Edward John Harcourt, Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan S. Jones, Margaret Fairgrieve Milanick, John Neff, Paul Ringel, Natalie Sweet, David K. Thomson, and Jonathan W. White.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarten, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - JAMES MARTEN is professor of history at Marquette University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia); \u003ci\u003eSing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCivil War America: Voices from the Home Front\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Children's Civil War.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanney, Caroline E.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - CAROLINE E. JANNEY is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and director of the Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBurying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRemembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePetersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eEnds of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50860628541714,"sku":"9780820359656","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b7f468e-dcc6-4d5e-a67f-e5e0feeb31c7.jpg?v=1737579694","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/buying-and-selling-civil-war-memory-in-gilded-age-america-9780820359656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}