Research Catalog

Title

Empire and liberty : the Civil War and the West / edited by Virginia Scharff ; exhibition curated by Carolyn Brucken.

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Scharff, Virginia
• Brucken, Carolyn, 1966-
• Autry National Center.

Description

xv, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 27 cm

Summary

"Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West shaped the conflict over slavery, and how slavery shaped the West, in the process defining American ideals about freedom and influencing battles over race, property, and citizenship. This innovative work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the United States observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. A companion volume to an Autry National Center exhibition on the Civil War and the West, Empire and Liberty brings leading historians together to examine artifacts, objects, and art that illuminate this period of national expansion, conflict, and catharsis"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

West (U.S.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865

Note

• Companion volume to an Autry National Center exhibition on the Civil War and the West.
• "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Virginia Scharff -- The price of slavery across empire : family, community, and loss in Texas / Brenda E. Stevenson -- The Frémonts : agents of empire, legends of liberty / John Mack Faragher -- Beecher's bibles and broadswords : paving the way for the Civil War in the West, 1854-1859 / Jonathan Earle -- Liberty, empire, and Civil War in the American West / Durwood Ball -- When the stars fell from the sky : the Cherokee Nation and autonomy in the Civil War / Kent Blansett -- On the edge of empires, republics, and identities : de la Guerra's sword of the war and the California native cavalry / Daniel Lynch -- John Gast's American Progress : using Manifest Destiny to forget the Civil War and Reconstruction / Adam Arenson -- Empire and liberty in the middle of nowhere / Virginia Scharff -- The not-so-free labor in the American Southwest / Maria E. Montoya -- After Antietam : memory and memorabilia in the far west / William Deverell -- "You brought history alive for us" : reflections on the lives of nineteenth-century Diné women / Jennifer Denetdale.

Call Number

IW 16-3001

ISBN

• 9780520281264 (cloth)
• 0520281268 (cloth)

LCCN

2014037764

OCLC

892213109

Title

Empire and liberty : the Civil War and the West / edited by Virginia Scharff ; exhibition curated by Carolyn Brucken.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Scharff, Virginia, editor.

Brucken, Carolyn, 1966- curator.

Autry National Center.

Research Call Number

IW 16-3001